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Gamble with the nation's future. it could go south. you know it could. >> well, pleading, you know, going with the present system is it a gamble with the odds against us because your blue cross card is shrinking, people are being charged more by employers and deductibles are going up and now the lifetime caps so if you're healthy, fine, you're diagnosed with cancer, you get the first operation paid for, after that, you're on your own, it's death panel time. the fact is that you cannot prohibit pre-existing conditions unless you also have a requirement of universal coverage. otherwise, people w...

Debt. he started out all wrong by saying, if you have -- if you like the plan you have, you can keep it. and everybody went, well, then what's the problem? why are we spending all this money? >> and bill, i think one of the problems of framing it, morally, for them was at the outset, they gave up the concept of universal coverage. their bill, as they've designed it now, in its most optimistic form, would leave another 15 million, 20 million people without any insurance at all, and so all those same sob stories will exist after this bill takes full effect. so it seems like they couldn't really ...

And everybody went, well, then what's the problem? why are we spending all this money? >> and bill, i think one of the problems of framing it, morally, for them was at the outset, they gave up the concept of universal coverage. their bill, as they've designed it now, in its most optimistic form, would leave another 15 million, 20 million people without any insurance at all, and so all those same sob stories will exist after this bill takes full effect. so it seems like they couldn't really embrace the morality argument because in their moral choice, they were leaving out about half the people....

Afghanistan? why is the that that's an impossibility in the country, that that many people can die, or in a terrorist attack, but it's okay that they die from a failing medical system? i don't know why they framed the debate the way they did, or rather, that they didn't. they should have framed it in a moral sense like that and they should have framed it for people who are more selfish thinking, that this is a -- that you are going to go broke. democrats need to use fear the way the republicans use fear. and it's true. i mean, health care costs keep going up. they should have scared the americ...

The american people want the house or senate bills. 56% of them say they don't. but there are things on which we can agree and there are things on which republicans ought to be willing to agree with democrats on. republicans are certainly willing to agree that we should cover everyone with a pre-existing condition, that nobody should be left out. i think republicans are willing to embrace so-called universal coverage. i've introduced legislation virtually every year i've been here to cover every single american. so there are things that we can agree on. neither side should start, i think, with...