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Sick, a catastrophic injury or illness, and number three is for young people on their parents' coverage they should be able to extend it until the age of 25 or 26. okay, i agree, let's pass those things into law tomorrow. let the president sign it into law tomorrow, and on the things that we absolutely agree, get those done right now. >> i assume when this session resumes and you have a chance to speak, you'll make that point to the president? >> well, i have some other points i want to make as a result of my 25 years of practicing medicine in wyoming, the things that i've seen as a physician ...

To the democrats after you have asked many of them to cast a tough vote the say, we will bring this issue up again and we will scale back the bill. liberals will be mad asking why you scale back and moderates and conservatives in tough districts are going to say, why are you going the make me take enough tough vote with the wind in my face. >> it is all or nothing vote. >> i don't think so. there are good vote counters up there by the way. nancy pelosi and harry reid know how to count, and before they decide to do anything, they will know where the votes are on it. and so, what the democrats a...

The medical malpractice chute, and doctors want that. you heard the doctor talk about it as one of his priorities. one other one, which is interest, because so much of the debate has focussed on this issue. do you favor a public health insurance option administered by the federal government. 76% of democrats, yes, they want it. that is the pressure on the president. and independents 49% say yes. they are divided 25%. and 25% of the republicans want the public option. so the bottom two numbers are the big political divide. candidate obama never spoke the words public option, but this debate in ...

>> senator, david gergen has a quick question. >> senator, your colleague, lamar alexander, asked the president for a pledge to take reconciliation off the table. if reconciliation is taken off the table, are the republicans prepared today to make a pledge that they will work in good faith to get a smaller bill done in the next five weeks or so? could you -- could you appoint a team, and would you make a pledge today to do that and work with the president? >> i'd love to see that. i would love to see that happen. we need health care reform in this country. we need to focus on quality care, whi...

We prevent waiting lists during that period, and we have these programs managed by the state level, and that they are robust enough that cbo has scored they will be effective. what the house and senate approaches are is that those rules are set in washington. and the house and senate bills are similar in that if you look at the senate bill on 48, 50, 51 and 52, it is the elected health of human services who can access the programs and reduce premiums and benefits. so it is similar in what we talk about, there is a key different approach there. then, after 2014, when the bill fully comes into p...