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Today and the senate launches, then i think there should be -- it shouldn't be very difficult to reconcile the differences between the two positions. personally, i prefer the medical device tax repeal or delay. that's my preference. but, look, i'm not going to -- i understand very clearly that we have to run this government, we have to fund it, get it reopened, and meet our obligations and not default. that's what's driving this. the other issues i think will work themselves out, but i believe there is a basic outline for a compromise. >> why should we -- i mean, here's sort of the -- not to b...

Campaign against you. would you be in favor of a one-year delay in the individual mandate? >> i'm not in fave of that. i think if you look at what arkansas did, we have a democratic governor, republican legislature. they came together in a bipartisan way to do the medicaid expansion in our state using private insurance. they call it the private option. >> what do you say to the fairness argument, that big business gets a delay but individuals don't? >> in my state we're about to have maybe as many as 500,000 people e either through the exchanges or through the medicaid expansion, and by the wa...

We wait with baited breath. both of the plans in the senate and house will fund the government, obama care included, through january 15th, 2014. remember that date. that was chosen for a specific reason and i'll get to that in a moment. both of the plans would let the government continue to borrow money as well. that would go through february 7th. and the senate plan would require both houses to craft a proper budget. remember the days when we had a proper budget? they'd have to do that at some point in december. the senate plan calls for minor tweaks to the affordable care act and the obama c...

Of the collins proposal, two-year delay on that so-called medical device tax, pacemaker tax. and then the second thing you talk about is the language about whether members of congress and their staffs should fall under the exchanges, which you said the difference here is only members of congress, not the staff. >> correct. and the white house would fall in, too. so it would be congress and the white house and i guess white house staff but not congressional staff. i'm saying that's from my quick memory. i didn't write this down, but that's my understanding. >> okay. and, look, we've heard from ...

That would do a few things. essentially use i believe the same time frames for the cr and the debt limit as in the senate negotiations. i believe that would be january 15th for the cr and february 7th or 8th for the debt limit. it would strike the the reinsurance tax, that $63 per head tax for the large self-insureds and the large unions. that would be out and replaced with a two-year delay of the medical device tax plus a variation or derivative of the bitter language minus the congressional staff that would affect the congress and i think the white house and white house staff. that's essenti...