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To health care, it's about sabotaging obama care zpl yes, it's hard to get it right but this is an effort that history will judge, not by the number of computer errors but by the number of lives saved. >> the upton bill will not go on to senate, he's already indicated he would veto it. two are offering fixes to the health care bill. mary landrieu would require health insurance companies to continue offering existing plans indefinitely. a bill by udlall allows them to keep it through 2015. joining us now, bill nelson. >> hey, tamron. >> the developments out of the house, the president said he w...

Opportunity to vote on something in the house, in the senate so that they can then go to their constituents and say, we were part of fixing this problem, rather than having to tell their constituents in states and districts where there's very little trust for the president, trust the president, he's working on it, he's fixing it. so why did the president decide to go in the direction of an administrative fix rather than tweaking the upton bill, working with democrats to put forward some legislation so there could be something passed through the hill? >> i think the president was likely afraid ...

Further undermine the implementation of the affordable care act. >> that might be the case that that is what the bill does but still, democrats are threatening -- >> that's right. >> in the house of representatives that they're going to have to vote for the republican plan because it's going to put them in a bad political position if democrats don't offer something better. what's the alternative that you, democrats or the white house is going to offer up? >> kate, tomorrow when that legislation comes on the floor, i'm confident that democrats are going to stand as we have in unity to continue ...

When the president comes out and says i'll potentially delay this for at least a year, nobody has a problem with that when he does it unilaterally, that doesn't seem too constitutional to me. steve? >> let's see if nobody has a problem with this, we don't know yet what the president will propose and there are an awful lot of democrats who have been aghast at the idea of the democrats coming out and saying they want to make a significant legislative fixes to the law and it changes the law right now because they fear it will undermine the law and see if everyone is okay, and they'll confuse me f...

Managed to get some forms through committee. but in the clinton bill, none of the people in question, that we are talking about tonight would have been allowed to keep their substandard insurance. >> it didn't work out so well. because of that because there were no warnings. you really have a choice this week of bad policy versus dangerous politics. because to disrupt the markets now, would just be to throw in the towel. that's why -- the upton bill is so clever. because the it sound very reasonable. but it would actually undercut the whole structure of obama care. but you can't let the democr...