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To make to the middle of the electorate as this debate goes on. some republicans say we're on safe ground here because the american people don't like the president's health care law and it's true. our new poll shows 57%, nearly six in ten americans oppose obama care, however, this is a critical distinction. break that number down, 11% of those who opposed the president's health care law oppose it because they think it didn't go far enough. they wanted a single payer system or more government involvement so that is a critical point as republicans say hey the american people oppose this law. som...

Is responsible. that tells you the president has a sales case to make to the middle of the electorate. some republicans say we're on safe ground because the american people don't like the president's health care law. it's true, our new poll shows 57%, nearly 6 in 10 americans, oppose obama care. however, this is a critical distinction. break that number down. 11% of those who oppose the president's health care law oppose it because they don't think it went far enough. they wanted a single payer system or more government involvement. that's a critical point as republicans say hey, thuamerican p...

Democrats hope -- a single payer system and by that i mean government funded health care insurance? >> that's what harry reid said in a discussion in nevada on a television interview. he said there's going -- the obama health care law is going to fail and we go to a single payer system which is like the system in britain or canada where the care is free but the waits are very long. i've operated on people from canada who have come down because they couldn't wait. they couldn't afford to wait for their free operation. and death rates from cancer are much higher in england and the united states ...

$5,000 when i can pay $200 penalty and get free health care coverage? >> don't forget, though, the people objected when medicare came on-line in 1965. >> gregg: medicare is going broke, ellen. >> medicare, social security are going belly up. they put in a new system. >> basic changes were made. >> gregg: ellen, would you agree that maybe it's time to start all over again? >> no. i think you have to do some fixes to this. i think that nobody wanted to do a one payer system. i'm radical enough, i would have gone with a single payer system. but that was very politically unpopular. >> gregg: all r...

So if they're upset about a cadillac tax, they better start getting upset about the amount of taxes that are going to come out of the paychecks of workers once we get a single payer system, god forbid that ever happens. >> steve: you mentioned that the long shoremen wrote a letter to trumka. here is an excerpt of it. it says: we feel the federation has done a great disservice to the labor movement and all working people by going along to get along. president obama ran on a platform that he would not tax medical plans and since 2009 afl-cio convention, you stated that labor would not stand for ...