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Well, you know, a few months ago, when you brought up your own grandmother's situation [she decided to get an expensive hip replacement operation, even though she was terminally ill], I mean, it was, I think, painful and personal because every family, if they haven't hit some wrenching decision like this, is going to. As you think back on that, I mean, was that the right [medical] decision? Is this the - for your family, for her? Is this the kind of thing that a reformed system, as you see it, would change the dynamic of that decision...
Well, you know, a few months ago, when you brought up your own grandmother's situation [her choice to have an expensive hip-replacement operation, despite the fact that she was terminially ill], I mean, it was, I think, painful and personal because every family, if they haven't hit some wrenching decision like this, is going to. As you think back on that, I mean, was that the right decision? Is this the - for your family, for her? Is this the kind of thing that a reformed system, as you see it, would change the dynamic of that decision...
...debate about government-run health care versus the free market, et cetera, which is not at all what the real debate is about, but that's a lot of times how it gets shaded or framed in the press - all of which feeds the public spheres, even though they know that the system we have isn't working very well...
...people are still worried about whether this is going to somehow increase their costs when every bill that's out there would lower them, or that this is going to mean that they lose 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...
...ideally if - you know, you asked earlier about tactics. Had we not been in the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression I would have led with health care reform, made the case, and potentially we might have had it done...