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Families. chuck, you've been working on this a long time, you've discussed the unsustainable growth in medicare and medicaid in our budget. mike has worked on this, partnered with ted kennedy on a range of health care issues, is chairman of the committee, you said that small businesses in your home state are finding it nearly impossible to afford health care dpoumpcover for the employ is and you said the current system is in critical condition. mitch, you have said that the need for reform is not in question, and obviously there are comparable statements on the democratic side as well. so here...

Behind. mike ense and ted kennedy wrote 35 bills together. you mentioned that in your opening remarks. you and i and many other senators work together on the america competes act. we can do that on health care as well. but to do that, we'll have to renounce jamming it through in a partisan way. if we don't, then the rest of what we do today will not be relevant. the only thing bipartisan will be the opposition to the bill and we'll be saying to the american people, who have tried to tell us in every way they know how, town halls and elections and surveys that they don't want this bill, that th...

Economy all at once. that's sort of thing works in the classroom but it doesn't work very well in our big, complicated country. it doesn't work for most of us. if you look around the table, i'm sure it's true on the democratic side as it is on the republican, we've got shoe store owners and small business people and a former county judge and we've got three doctors. we've got people who are used to solving problems step by step. and that's why we said 173 times on the senate floor in the last six months of last year, we mentioned our step-by-step plan for reducing health care costs. and i'd li...

Put out there, paul ryan has discussed some of the issues surrounding medicare. i've looked at those very carefully. >> mike ense in the past you put forward legislation around small businesses that are very important. so when i look at the ideas that are out there, there is overlap. it's not perfect overlap, it's not 100% overlap, but there's some overlap. now, what i did, what the white house did several days ago is we posted what we think is the best blend of the house and the senate legislation that's already passed. the basic concept is that we would set up an exchange, meaning a place wh...

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