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Look at all the various proposals that have been put forward. it's gone more to health insurance reform. the public option no longer bowing discussed, instead a lot of regulations specifically on the insurance industry. so there's more agreement on some things. what i'm looking for are what are the continued deal breakers. what are the things both sides will say we absolutely cannot tolerate as far as health reform moving forward. also i thought there was an interesting analogy this morning reading through some of the newspapers, this idea that they keep saying the white house, we're on the 99...

Senator there, but he has some star appeal that people are going to want to have rub off on them. jon: when he campaigned, as you said, as the 41st vote against health care, it would seem he would be an unlikely ally for the obama administration in any kind of big health care reform. i mean, they might nibble at it at the sides, i suppose, huh? >> i think you're right. the only people who aren't admitting that the president's overall health care bill is dead are people in the administration themselves. i think you're hearing in congress, basically, the conditions -- answer is that the bill pig...

Medicine because now they are not dealing with as many emergency room patients. the cost control aspects of it, the coverage aspects of it, and the insurance reform aspects of it all fit together. here is the problem, though, when you have got all those things stringed together it ends up being a complicated bill and it's easy to scare the daylights out of people. but here is the good news. we are essentially on the 5 yard line for those of you who like football analogies. we have had to go into overtime. but we are now in the red zone. that's exactly right. we are in the red zone. we have got...

Which in turn allows us to cut back on some wasteful spending and help upgrade hospitals and doctors and how they perform medicine because now they are not dealing with as many emergency room patients, so the cost control aspects of it, the coverage aspects of it and the insurance reform aspects of it all fit together. here's the problem though is when you've got all those things fitting together, it ends up being a big complicated bill, and it's very easy to scare the daylights out of people, and that's basically what happened during the course of this year's debate. but here's the good news....

Make sure that a cancer survivor can still get health insurance. but to do that, we want to make sure everybody has health insurance. which in turn allows us to cut back on some wasteful spending and help upgrade hospitals and doctors and how they perform medicine because now they are not dealing with as many emergency room patients. the cost control aspects of it, the coverage aspects of it, and the insurance reform aspects of it, all fit together. here's the problem, though, when you have all those things together, it ends up being a big complicated bill and it is very easy to scare the dayl...