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communications for the white house, joins us from the north lawn. they tried to exchange ideas on cutting costs. there didn t seem to be any area of agreement. boy, andrea, first let me correct that. you gave me a promotion. i m director of communications for health reform. i don t want to take dan piper s job. i m always glad to promote you. we need more women in big job. we do, indeed. areas of agreement, actually, andrea, i would disagree with that. health insurance system. they believe in small businesses being able to pool together to
talking earlier about what states do. a lot of states already do it. this, by the way, goes to the other difference that we have when it comes to interstate purchase of insurance. actually, this is a republican idea, been championed by the republicans. we actually agree with the idea that maybe if you getor regional markets and national markets as opposed to just state- state-by-state markets, you might get more choice and competition. people might be able to say, gosh, there s a great insurance company in nevada and i live in new york and maybe i can purchase it. that s actually something we find attractive. so do you guys. but, again, the one difference, as i understand it, and the reason you re not supporting the approach that we take is what we say is there should be sort of a minimum baselined benefit. because if not, what ends up happening is you get a company set up in nevada let s assume there were no rules there, there are no protections for the woman who has breas