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Their ideas you incorporate, republicans are not going to support this, period. joining us now is ezra klein. staff writer at the washington post who did not know about, nor does he endorse the snarky thing i said about his paper a moment before he came on the show. >> good evening, i don't even think i heard it. >> hooray, that's the best defense. >> don't watch the tivo. are there substantive policy disagreements here? it does not seem to me like the disagreements here are about policy, it seems to me like they are pure politics. >> you could argue there are, right? maybe republicans don't b...

Unions do today. >> check. that's exactly what the proposed health insurance exchanges are all about. the more people that are allowed to participate in these exchanges, the greater the risk pool becomes and the lower the costs get. the second republican demand already in the bill. >> number three, give states the tools to create their own innovative reforms that lower health care costs. >> i'm beginning to sound like a broken record here, but check, also in the bill. section 1332 of the senate bill is called the waiver for state innovation, again, as ezra points out, it allows states to opt o...

So i'm going to be starting from scratch in the sense that i will be open to any ideas that help promote these goals. >> president obama originally wanted health reform done by august. that did not happen because max baucus decided to waste three months. now mr. obama plans to hold a bipartisan health summit in two weeks. it will be similar to the bipartisan health summit that mr. obama held at the white house last march. when president obama addressed house republicans last month, he rattled off a whole list of ideas taken from republicans and put into the health reform bill. all of that bipa...

Reform, otherwise known as in the bill. the senate bill calls on individual states to develop new ways to deal with malpractice lawsuits. ail turntives that could be funded by congress. the senate health reform bill addresses everything that the republicans have identified as their main concerns for policy on health reform. and the republican reaction is to say, the bill must be scrapped. let me not put words in their mouths, let them do it. >> it really is time to scrap the bill and start over. >> and frankly, that response is totally rational. republicans think it is great politics to derail...

Up with something and said, here's what a compromised bill will look like. and it looked like what we're looking at. that was true in 1994, the bill we're looking at looks a lot like the mainstream caucus they came up as an alternative to the clinton plan. the fact of the matter is giving the president a large accomplishment is not a political compromise, it's a kploms nobo compromise nobody knows how to reach right now. >> you may have heard senator wyden pushing this idea of cooperation, we think there are area where's we have -- where we can agree, there are things on which we can see eye-t...