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And remember, in maryland, they only mark up prices by 21%. by wait, it gets even worse. just cross the line into pennsylvania and they have a 277% mark-up. this heart attack is getting very expensive. but wait, we still have one more state to go. in new jersey, hospitals hike their prices higher than any other state in the country, 326%. i wanted to understand why hospitals mark up their prices this way. so i've come here to ask the president of the american hospital association. nationally, mark-ups are 180%, we're told. that just seems, to most consumers, that just seems like a huge mark-up...

Job done. and that is to say, we want banks to get back to doing what banks do. and banks that pay the insurance corporation, need to, if they want to continue to do risky swaps, take those operations out. set them apart. they're going to take that risky operation out and it's going to require more capital and it's going to require more regulation. but making sure that banks do what banks do, and if they want to do more, then they need to move that operation out. and that's what we're going to be trying to do out of the ag committee, which we did mark up, and i feel good about that. and i hope...

>> the way they will manage it on the floor in the house is they will not allow amendments. that would open up this can of worms. whatever will come out of the mark-up on monday at 3:00, remember, the house is a body whose legislative procedures are more carefully managed by the leadership. whatever comes out of the mark-up, that's what we'll see. if it's not there at 3:00 on monday, then i think the ship finally has sailed, the nail is in the coffin, choose your metaphor for this maddening bit of political malfeasance. >> let me pry the nail out of the coffin and say it's not there as of 3:00...

Possibly to the administration to say that it doesn't make sense. maybe they are being told not to include it. >> look, the administration has said every conceivable sign aside of saying, oh, sure, beooer for it that they are not actually for it. where do you rest this? the white house. every opportunity they could have intervened on behalf of the public option they have chosen not to. i think you're right. the ball is in pelosi's court and the speaker should call the bluff. when they put it on the mark oep-up she should make dick durbin do what he said and make the white house do what he said...

The problem is that costs money. significant amounts of money. more than $100 billion. senate republicans don't have that space to work with. it runs head long into the leaders. the deficit hawks adding more money to what costs and could risk alienating them. senator james langeford and they don't want this plan to add to the deficit in the long-term. what you have is gop leaders trying to figure out both sides. they need to do it in a short clip. president trump meeting with republicans behind closed doors. there is hope that maybe he can get senator johnson over the finish line and as it sta...