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We're just getting in. tomorrow the president, as we've been telling you, is expected to unveil a revised health care reform package. we have been reporting that it will include some republican proposals. the ap is now saying that the president will be sending a letter to democratic leaders sometime today with more details. it's reported that the plan could include expanding the use of fraud investigators disguised as patients to uncover waste and abuse, also could expand pilot programs on medical malpractice reform among other things. ron is with us, former communications directer to dennys h...

Welcome back to "hardball." in a letter today to congress al leaders, president obama outlined four republican ideas for thursday's summit, or from last thursday's summit that he said he's exploring right now. they are senator coburn suggesting to curb medicare fraud by having undercover investigators disguised as patients. and republicans to expand medical malpractice reform pilot programs. senator grassley suggested to increase payment to doctors who treat medicaid patients. and senator grasso's suggestion to access to health care savings accounts. president obama noted his proposal does not...

Chris. when you go out and have some sort of a physical problem, or go to a hospital, and they go through all the procedures, when was the last time any of us who have insurance actually looked over the bill and said, what is 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 inquire 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 e...

And don't have alternatives. we laid out a number of different things that we think will make a lot more sense to go step by step to fix the cost problem and also it is important to remember the american people do no want this bill. they paid a lot of attention to this issue. they have focused on it like a laser for months. surveys are -- >> if you took something like malpractice reform which you all is had wanted to put in there in a real form rather than just pilot programs here and there, the president said fine. let's have something meaningful and malpractice reform, we will put in this bi...

And not knowledgeable about it and don't have alternatives. and we laid out a number of different things that we think will make a lot more sense to go step by step to fix the cost problem and also it is important to remember the american people do no want this bill. they have paid a lot of attention to this issue. they have focused on it like a laser for months. but surveys are -- >> if you took something like malpractice reform which you all had really wanted to put in there in a real form rather than just pilot programs here and there, suppose the president said fine, let's have something m...