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...knew was always going to be contentious - and I actually think that the way this process has evolved, I like where we are right now but it's still tough - has to do with the issue of how do you bend the cost curve, because you can't say we're going to control cost inflation except nothing changes; something has to change if health care inflation is going to be reduced...
...that going to happen occasionally or at least that I'm not going to be able to get what I want? I mean - Well - yes. I mean, here's what I've tried to say. Here's how I've described it, and this is the truth as I see it: There is nothing that - there is nothing that would make you healthier that health reform would prevent you from getting. What we are interested in doing is giving doctors and patients the ability to sort through what's effective and what's not, and not purchase things that...
...will say that this has been the most difficult test for me so far in public life, trying to describe in clear, simple terms how important it is that we reform this system. The case is so clear to me. And when I sit with our policy advisors - we had somebody here sitting right there this morning who is a medical expert, worked at McKinsey for a while, he's now working on our health care team - and he just ran through: We pay 77 percent more on prescription drugs, we're paying $6,000 more per individual on health...
...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...
...noticed that you're lately referring to it as health insurance reform. Well, I think partly because we're just trying to provide some additional definition. Now, I do think that some of the insurance reform proposals are easier for people to understand. So if you just say insurance companies can't block you from getting insurance because of a preexisting condition, people I think are familiar enough with those issues that it immediately resonates with them personally...