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Been so intent on defying the american well. the time for choose is near. do what the party leadership demands or do what the people have asked you to do. >> it's all extremely complicated. a game of three level chess going on here. still trying to lock down votes. one thing we can count on, this next week in washington will be full of legislative action and the stakes could not be higher. >> i know the white house doesn't want to go here, but is there a fall back option if the plan doesn't get passed? >> this is the fall back option, alex. all year long over the past 12 months we heard the po...

Have an employer mandate. >> okay. fast forward to this week. now that the democrats have compromised substantially on that pesky 20% where the all important disagreement was, according to orin hatch and now that the president's plan doesn't include a public option and there is no employer mandate which is what senator hatch was complaining about in the 20%. now that that's been resolved presumably to senator hatch's satisfaction, senator hatch was just asked by think progress if he still agrees with democrats on 80% of health reform. one might think since democrats have given in to so many re...

What they are talking about we could probably agree on. but it's the 20% where all the money is where we have a lot of disagreements. for instance, he was saying basically that they are going to have a public plan, one form or another, that they are going to have an employer mandate. >> okay. fast forward to this week. now that the democrats have compromised substantially on that pesky 20% where the all important disagreement was, according to orrin hatch, now that the president's plan doesn't even include a public option and there is no employer mandate, which is the two things senator hatch ...

Enough. you support it but you wish there was a public option. which isn't on the table, as you heard today. you heard david gergen talk about potentially a plan "b," a skinny plan as it's being called. this had so much momentum last year, partly into the summer. what happened? >> i would like to see a public option. like many americans and many doctors i'd like to see the private insurance companies held accountable for some of their excessive behavior. i think that more competition in the marketplace is a good thing. i would like to see the plan go forward on several fronts where it hasn't. ...

What happened? >> i would like to see a public option. like many americans and many doctors i'd like to see the private insurance companies held accountable for some of their excessive behavior. i think that more competition in the marketplace is a good thing. i would like to see the plan go forward on several fronts where it hasn't. i would like to see malpractice reform. doctors do undoubtedly practice because of fear of lawsuits. i would like to see universal health care coverage. the republican plan doesn't expand access to health care as much as the obama plan does. and i would like to se...