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The problem with our system is it is so complicated for the consumer, for the doctors, is that a hospital, forample, might be dealing with 15, 20, 30 different insurance policies. it tes an enormous amount of time, energy, and expense to figure out that you have a $5,000 deductible, you have a $10,000 deductible. the goal simply is to say that every person in this country through a single payer system is entitled to a comprehensive health care approach and that will save substantial sums of money in administrative costs, substantial sums of money in lower prescription drug costs, substantial s...

Can understand the president's frustration. seven years the republicans had to get something on the table, they complained about president obama, they kept talking about him, they said the democrats lied to the american people and then they come forward to meet with the american people and have nothing to show for it, what they've done. one can definitely understand the president's frustration. >> they can understand president's frustration, let's be clear about this. what the president is advocating and the republican congressman is advocating will put people out of health care and what i adv...

System, are we a step closer to that? >> it's difficult to say. again, when it comes down to it, a lot of people are comparing the status quo to what it could be replaced with. they're seeing stories in other countries where access might be limited. where wait lines might be longer and things. they're saying, i'm not sure that i want a single-payer system. is there a wait to integrate -- a way to integrate the private market with the public market and have things work better. there is public support, but it comes with conditions. usually when you tell people how much their taxes will go up, fe...

Bailing out insurance companies. no thought to any kind of refor reform. it is not something i want to be a part of i suspect, not many people over here that are interested in that. will be interesting to see what they have in mind. quadrupling down on the failures of obamacare with a single-payer system. we had devote a little earlier, thank you to the senator from montana. they did not want to make a decision. but whether there were for or against socialized medicine. the government takeover of everything. european health care. only four of them were not

Pivoted to the work to update and improve the affordable care act and to a lower american costs, but it sounds like that's makes republicans very nervous. >> i am very anxious to see what our friends on the democratic side have in mind. i am anxious to work with them, i can tell you right now, though, if the plan is to go to a single-payer system, just throw a bunch of money at health insurance companies, i am going to sit that one out. >> and republicans who had been told that they might have to stick around longer into their recess on the house side to work on health care, are walking into...