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Fracas. >> is it a time of opportunity or just depressing? >> it was depressing. >> are you feeling depressed? run down? are you the president of the united states? >> for a long time, it was depressing. >> ask your doctor for paxil. second-term strength. >> it was just -- >> the only antidepressant strong enough for an embattled second term. >> it was just painful to watch. >> through the nose. >> the health insurance system is very, very difficult. >> the upton plan would allow people to keep their health plans they like. >> the gentleman needs to read our bill. it doesn't say the insurance ...

Consumer protections of the bill. you have legislation out of senator landrieu's office -- unlike president obama and upton, that would actually solve the problem of people losing their plans. the downside from that, aside from being a pretty grifs mandate, you're now keeping millions of people, a lot of whom are healthier and in better shape from going into the affordable care act's marketplaces and, by nature, that means you have higher premiums. and i think what you see there -- this is an important thing for folks to understand, that these plan cancellations are related intrinsically to th...

Really well. which people didn't notice. because they weren't controversial. so making sure kids could stay on their parents' plans until they were -- up through the age of 25 and making sure that seniors got more discounts on their prescription drugs. >> in addition, you can't cancel people for pre-existing conditions, no annual or lifetime limits, new preventive services at no cost. do you not support these things? because the upton plan would mean that those don't have to be offered. >> well, the upton plan would allow people to keep their health plans that they'd like. it would give the ch...

The next 24 hours or so? >> yeah. well, first of all, i think they're much more attuned to sort of what the voters, not steeped in the legislative language either are, they're much more tuned into that and hearing what voters say are confusion, chaos, stories about cancellation. building panic amongst their constituents and overwhelming desire of democrats is to be seen going on the record and doing something about this. there's talk about whether that means putting exactly what the president talked about today into legislative language that fred upton, the republican from michigan is offering...

>> this fix won't solve every problem for every person. but it's going to help a lot of people. doing more will require work with congress. and i've said from the beginning i'm willing to work with democrats and republicans to fix problems as they arise. this is an example of what i was talking about. we can always make this law work better. >> and, ezra, of course, as you know, congress is stepping forward with a variety of plans. run through them for us, if you can. the upton plan, republican plan in the house and landrieu plan in the senate. >> it would permit not only insurers to keep the ...