d, the prescription drug benefit, that is a market-based approach. it s not mandated. consequently i m looking at finding solutions that are much more market-based to get rid of the individual mandate. it isn t the only way to do it. it s the way that the insurance industry suggested and it was followed through on. it s attracted questions about constitutionality, not publicly or politically accepted by most people, so we need to find an alternative to that. i have diabetes, for example. if i waited until i had diabetes to get health care, it would probably cost me more money. it s worse than that. what if you re the guy or the woman who doesn t subscribe to the obama health care bill does decide or does get diagnosed with a disease and then wants to get health care, what happens to them under your idea? under my idea you re not going to have people able to buy health insurance in the ambulance on the way to the hospital. what we are going to have is we re going to have market-
approach. but you can also look for market-based approaches as well. take a look at the medicare part d, the prescription drug benefit, that is a market-based approach. it s not mandated. consequently i m looking at finding solutions that are much more market-based to get rid of the individual mandate. it isn t the only way to do it. it s the way that the insurance industry suggested and it was followed through on. it s attracted questions about constitutionality, not publicly or politically accepted by most people, so we need to find an alternative to that. i have diabetes, for example. if i waited until i had diabetes to get health care, it would probably cost me more money. it s worse than that. the woman who doesn t subscribe to the obama health care bill does decide or does get diagnosed with a disease and then wants to get health care, what happens to them under your idea. under my idea you re not going to have people able to buy
go along with it. martha: chief white house correspondent major garrett is live on the north lawn with more on this and you spoke with david axelrod about nancy pelosi among other things, that it was really nancy pelosi, according to what we have been hearing a bit, who demanded a full court press after what looked like a devastating blow to this entire effort, after scott brown was elected in massachusetts, and what did he tell you about that, major? reporter: a narrative that is has been out for a couple of days and the white house doesn t subscribe to it in its totality, putting it mildly and the speaker of the house, said, mr. president, if you intend to come to us after the scott brown defeat with something incrementalist and something that is small i will not deal with it and i will not put it on the house floor and have democrats consider it. and, it is that line of thinking from capitol hill, that it was really the speaker of the house that pushed the president back towards