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>> neil: when speaker pelosi says you will do fine and medicare addresses it -- this is what he said. i want your reaction. >> the truth is democrats believe that health insurance reform must strengthen medicare, never harm it. that's why the health insurance reform legislation will improve care and benefits, improve care and benefits under medicare and extend medicare solvency. >> neil: why don't you believe her? >> that's just words. you and i know that won't happen. in the bill, the senate bill cutting medicare $500 billion. i don't know if it will happen or not but medicare is hemorrhaging...

Healthcare and 30-some million people will be covered who weren't covered and the ends do justify the means. is there any argument to that? is there a real possibility that once this thing becomes law, even people who are talking to you about not like it will be won over when they see the results? >> i don't believe that many the case. you can look at studies by cbo that says not only are health insurance costs not going down if obama care becomes claw. but for many individual policies you will see the cost to continue to rise. we know how to lower the cost of health insurance in this country....

Don't add to people's health outcomes but we're oversubsidizing insurance companies going after fraud and abuse which is why the president directed the attorney general, put together strike task forces, additional ideas are in there. >> you don't deal with tort reform which the president talked about. >> actually we do. that's just not true. he moved ahead on tort reform early on, directing me to put money -- well, the states are in various stages. many states like my own state of kansas have passed full tort reform. others haven't. this is really a state level situation. >> whether it comes t...

Oversubsidizing insurance companies going after fraud and abuse which is why the president directed the attorney general, put together strike task forces, additional ideas are in there. >> you don't deal with tort reform which the president talked about. >> actually we do. that's just not true. he moved ahead on tort reform early on, directing me to put money -- well, the states are in various stages. many states like my own state of kansas have passed full tort reform. others haven't. this is really a state level situation. >> whether it comes to -- malpractice reform, whether it's volume, wh...

Because it's the arrogance of power. it is jamming something through because you have the votes, not because it's the right thing to do and not because your members believe in it because you saw they had to buy half of them, nebraska and louisiana. >> sure. >> purchases. and i'll tell you what happens, people out, independents, will be absolutely off the charts when they say we're going to not get any substantial change, we are going to have to pay more, republicans are secretly saying, yeah, pass this thing because we will come back and take over the congress. >> fascinating to see a rasmusse...