Word: americanization
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...general, that tends to be the American attitude. For even though Census data can be put to ill purpose - in World War II they were used to figure out which neighborhoods had large Japanese populations, so that people could more easily be rounded up for internment camps - what tends to trump those concerns is our fascination with ourselves and desire to be represented...
...there that people have agreed to, reflect our - most of our ideas from the start of this process. So we haven't had trouble in moving the process to most of the things that we want to see in health care, which we think will help the American people have quality, affordable health care...
...ever did - No, actually, on this - I will confess: I don't spend a lot of time looking at my polls. I do look at the polling on health care, partly because I think that there is a terrific case to be made to the American public. But it is - this is complicated, it's difficult. Without giving you a hard time, Karen, because I think you've been terrific in reporting this, the press gets bored with the details easily, and it very easily slips into a very conventional debate about government-run health care versus the free market...
...when you just start hearing the litany of facts, what you say to yourself is this shouldn't be such a hard case to make, because the American consumer is really not getting a good deal...
...their doctors, or their health care is rationed, or, you know, all the other things that they're worried about, it leads me to spend a lot of time thinking about how can I describe this in clearer terms so that we can get the health care that the American people deserve...