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Incorporates the best from democrats and republicans, best ideas. >> somewhere in the middle? he may have taken a couple of republican ideas, and then put them into his 2733-page bill, but this bill is nowhere close to the middle. >> they did take the idea of undercover agents to check into medicare fraud. there is no public option, which republicans and many democrats hated. there are pilot programs for medical malpractice reform, and there is insurance industry reform which you all are for, having to do with caps on lifetime benefits and that kind of thing, and tax credits for small business...

Reconciliation, which is essentially we are going to do it one party. party line vote. that's what they are going for. but they wanted to present it to the american citizenry as having tried to reach out. that's why you had the charade of the summit last week. seven hours of discussion when it was all pre-cooked that that wouldn't change anything. that's why you had yesterday, the release of the changes that obama was heralding as leaning over towards republicans, for example, tort reform which are absolutely insignificant and almost comical. with tort reform he is offering for a problem that ...

Who have insurance actually looked over the bill and said, what was this item? why did that cost so much? the assumption here that the insurance is going to take care of it, without ever questioning is one of the things we do in the bill is require a lot of transparency on these issues so people can know what they're actually getting or not getting. >> do you think the democrats, if you're going to have to come up with the 50-plus votes even to do the reconciliation piece of this bill, do you think the democrats are willing to do the heavy lifting against the trial bar, to go after the trial l...

Reconciliation, which is essentially we are going to do it one party. party line vote. that's what they are going for. but they wanted to present it to the american citizenry as having tried to reach out. that's why you had the charade of the summit last week. seven hours of discussion when it was all pre-cooked that that wouldn't change anything. that's why you had yesterday, the release of the changes that obama was heralding as leaning over towards republicans, for example, tort reform which are absolutely insignificant and almost comical. with tort reform he is offering for a problem that ...

Welcome back to "hardball." in a letter today to congressional leaders, president obama outlined four republican ideas from thursday's summit that he says he's exploring. they are senator coburn suggestion to curb medicare fraud by having undercover investigators disguised as patients. the suggestion by several republicans to expand medical malpractice reform pilot programs. senator grassley suggested to increase payment to doctors who treat medicaid patients. and senator barrasso's suggestion of expanded access to health accounts. president obama noted his proposal does not include extra medi...