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Employee -- to insurance their employees. it is huge. and if it is a battle of normandy the good guys will win. glen confuses who are the good guys. i think the good guys going to win and i'm grad to see that. the american people win here. 30 million people get healthcare. people that have had preexisting conditions can get healthcare. you can't get tossed out. this is enormous for people who feared if they get sick they will get thrown out. it is a breakthrough and a great moment. i would have wanted single payer plan. it is not going to be -- who. >> geraldo: who are the 30 million? that bri...

>> i hate to disappoint you. i can't be apocalyptic. i would say the taxes are a step in the wrong direction. the quote fixes which is simply more paying for people's healthcare without any real cost control, geraldo, the simplest way for the american people to understand why i'm not voting for this bill. canada has a single payer system and covers everyone. we can debate about how well. they do it for 9% of the gdp or roughly 9% of our gdp. we on the other hand spend 18% of our gdp and expected to rise in percentage of our gross domestic product. why in the world would i vote for something th...

Strong in the congress, in arguing that if we can't have a single payer, at least we should have a public option, we should protect the rights of states to pursue a single payer plan. and i -- i've been basically, the last person to say, well, you know what, this is is the best we can do. but i will tell you this, i'm not stopping, larry. i'm going to do everything i can to help nurture those efforts that are happening in states across the country to move toward single payer. i'll work with the president in getting this bill passed, and the president is committed to work with me, in seeing fur...

Accuse him of improper behavior. where that goes from now i don't know. i will tell you the white house didn't force this guy out. that's not true and he admitted as much. but it is true that the white house was very happy to see him discredited and also frankly glad to see him gone. but i believe them when they say they did not launch this ethics investigation to try to force him out. as a matter of fact they were hoping until last week to try to convert him to vote for the bill. he was on the list of liberals who wanted a single payer plan. they were hoping to convince him at the end. it's a...

To twist every arm she can to force through what clearly the american don't want. what has been bipartisan in health care is the opposition to the bill. no doubt, as representative engle pointed out, we need to fix health care. republicans have already said that. we need an incremental approach. i think we need to bring both sides, republicans and democrats. what a shame is about this, there are things we can fix right now if they weren't such obstructionists that they have one size fits all government takeover. >> julie: where is the compromise? if this is the same bill that died last august ...