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It. it remains a single payer system. if you're over 65, the government pays for your health insurance. but he makes some cuts to it. those cuts are focused on some of these payments that go to private insurers and in coming years, they include changes to that medicare tried to do a little bit less of paying for quantity of health care and more of paying for quality of health care. there are health experts to which the plan did more. there are those who see it as on the way to death panels. that's basically what -- >> >> the obama plan. the white house, basically are saying no commitment to an...

>> steve and gretchen, get some rest. i'll take it from here. here's the question, if president obama -- if people look past what happened to the stimulus package and what could happen with the health care deal, what would his second term look like should he get another four years? do you have a sense of that? >> i'm glad this is a morning show. if it were late night show, my answer would give everybody nightmares. first on health care, he'll move to a single payer system, i think the supreme court decision that i expect will throw out this mandate but single payer, of course, is legal under t...

more than a decade. the economy has added jobs. that's the most important thing, for 17 straight months. more than two million jobs in the last year alone. so there are real signs the economy is improving, but gas prices have been soaring. the cost of living rising. the most in more than ten months. some americans may be feeling left out of this economy. diane swonk, diane, as gas prices have increased, the president's approval rating has decreased. i'm not one to make direct correlations, but there's been really nothing else that might have caused this. there's a clear breakdown bas...

Responding to the mitt romney accusations and the money that had been spent against newt gingrich. but look, newt gingrich is a conservative. nobody else get credit with the contract with america. welfare reform, $400 billion worth of dead, taxes cut. that's the legislative record. i would ask people to compare legislative records. >> i want to talk about the 2006 memo in which he looks to be praising the plan, saying, we agree entirely with gompor romney, that our goal should be 100 insurance offerage for all americans. will this hurt newt gingrich with conservatives? >> notice what you just ...

Chris ann writes it means the whole system has to change. not just some parts of the system. this is a process and is a good sign that we will eventually have the kind of health care in the country that we need. sherri writes it would mean more than half the states are idiotic. i know the law is not perfect, but it's better than the status quo. i have a preexisting condition, and without this law i would be unable to get insurance should i lose my job. another writes if our leaders were wise enough to create a single payer system, we wouldn't have to go through the nonsense. bob in ontario, i ...