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...possibility that people in Washington are talking about now is to ask the House to pass the Senate bill. That's what I was talking about, the political maneuvering...
Well, I've been covering it for a year, so I kind of know. What's in the bill now? What's the final version of the bill? No one really knows what's in the bill because every time we turn around, there is a new backroom deal with a carve-out. I've read the bills...
...would we take a bill that we have that has great plans, top to bottom - everyone gets exactly what they want, and if they are not covered, they go to a hospital - why would we take that plan and then [accept] a one-size-fits-all plan where the Federal Government is going to take and potentially hurt jobs, tax medical devices? We're talking about 220,000 jobs potentially being affected, cutting half a trillion from Medicare, affecting Tricare for veterans, having potentially longer lines in competing plans and subsidizing Nebraska and other types of situations. (Read "Does Brown...
...people say the health care bill is the Massachusetts plan taken nationally. It's not. That's not true. There are certain component parts of it, of course. The fact that we have made an effort to insure everybody. But we passed our plan without cutting Medicare. We didn't raise taxes. It was all self-sufficient. It was done through a free-market system where people could go in and [comparison shop] for a plan, and if they couldn't afford it, they would get a form of government subsidy...
...ultimately you say the primary objection people have is not so much the substance of the bill; it's the process as much as anything else. No. The primary [concern] for the average voter - and I've met hundreds of thousands of people since I've been [campaigning] - the biggest problem that I have heard is that No. 1, we can't afford it, and No. 2, they don't like how it's been done behind closed doors. They don't like the political maneuvering...