pre-existing conditions and veterans and the elderly and make sure i do everything i can and whatever tool i have left in my toolbox i'm going to use to it make sure serve the people of illinois and the people of this country and not going to le republicans do this to the american people. >> do you want the party to be more moderate or progressive. >> look, i voted against the medical device tax. i'm a pretty moderate democrat but progressive when it comes to things such at making sure that working american, hard-working folks have access to health insurance. you don't get rid of something before you have a fix for it and that's what we're faced here and, you know, i'm open to allowing them to buy into medicare to get more folks covered and that's certainly an option more progressive but more realistic and we're actually offering real solutions to the issues we're facing as opposed to pushing something through. >> some of your colleagues down in the house some democratic colleagues are bringing up the