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Patients are dying of -- 22-year-old hospital patients are dying of thirst in england but let's shoot for that one. tort reform. it's easy. have you noticed nobody talked about that? let's stop the lawsuits. they say they have it in the bill. that's a trojan horse as well. what is in the bill punishes states that implemented liability reform. if you have caps on liabilities, you're not going to be eligible for funding grants. that doesn't sound like what we'd be looking for. how about this? allow insurance across state line. or tax premium and allow preexisting conditions to be covered. well, ...

282-year-old hospital patients are dying of -- 22-year-old hospital patients are dying of thirst in england but let's shoot for that one. tort reform. it's easy. have you noticed nobody talked about that? let's stop the lawsuits. they say they have it in the bill. that's a trojan horse as well. what is in the bill punishes states that implemented liability reform. if you have caps on liabilities, you're not going to be eligible for funding grants. that doesn't sound like what we'd be looking for. how about this? allow insurance across state line. or tax premium and allow preexisting conditions...

Subtle plan to move us into that? surely not tom harkin. >> as i said before, the bill is not complete. i used the analogy of a starter home, in which we can add additions and enhan enhancements as we go in the future. every right like we passed for the american people, we revisit it later on to enhance and build on the rights. we will do that here surely. >> glenn: look at them nodding their heads in the back! how many examples, america, do you need to realize that it doesn't matter what passes. it's a foot in the door. as if you needed more evidence, monday night, nancy pelosi said and i quo...

Can be said for our colleagues on the other side of the aisle when they pass that big prescription drug plan that costs as much as my health care plan and they didn't pay for any of it and it went straight to the deficit, and now they're up there on their high horse talking about, well, we don't want to expand the deficit, this plan doesn't expand the deficit, their plan expanded the deficit. that's why we pay for what we do. that's the responsible thing to do. [ applause ] now, so let me talk about the third thing. which my proposal would bring down the cost of health care for families, for b...

New fee on insurance companies because they stand to gain millions more customers who are buying insurance. there's nothing wrong with them giving something back. but here's the bottom line. our proposal's paid for, which, by the way, is more than can be said for our colleagues on the other side of the aisle when they passed that big prescription drug plan and didn't pay for any of it and went straight to the deficit and now, they're up there on their high horse talking about, we don't want to expand the deficit. this plan doesn't expand the deficit. they're plan did. that's why we pay for wha...