november it s going to be more intense. john boehner, i think, what did he call you? i can t know. reporter: a dead man politically? if he wants to come down to my district and campaign, he s welcome to join me. reporter: in all seriousness, how much is this going to play in your re-election campaign? is this going to be by far the biggest issue hands down? i think the economy is going to be the biggest issue. i think it s important to move forward on health care. we need to go out and defend this health care bill, help the american people understand what s in it, not what the republicans misrepresent. the economy is going to play a critical role as we move toward november. think the economy is the biggest part of the campaign. reporter: see you on the campaign trail. thank you for stopping by, congressman. you have, again, some of the members of congress who are staunchly antiabortion who are with bart stupak at the press conference. all of them were doing it, obviously, b
opposition to this flawed health care bill. what we re seeing right now is very interesting. they want to be able to have formal remarks because of time constraints right now they can t do so. actually on the floor of the house. they want to be able to insert some statements into the record so republicans are lining up man and woman, man and woman, making these statements. john king, fascinating what s going on right now because, you know, it happens all the time on the house floor. we re seeing this up close on such an important piece of legislation. what we re seeing now, wolf, is the pivot. it s clear the democratic leadership has the votes this is a policy debate, a huge policy issue. there will be back and forth about the specifics. maneuvering by the politician now is about the election year. the republicans lining up want to get a speech on the record to send it to supporters back home, send it to their fund raising community, the interest groups saying here s what i said to
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brown, new senator, republican of massachusetts. he voted for it. he told me this past week he thinks it s working. yes, there are problems and it s costing more. he wouldn t change it. he think it s been good. 99% of the people of massachusetts now have health insurance. hold on for a moment. dana bash is up on the hill with a special guest. dana, a special guest who has a lot of history. reporter: a lot of history. they don t call him the dean of the house for nothing. we re talking about john dingell. he has something very special. mr. dingell, thank you for joining us here. tell us about this gavel. a lot of history here. the gavel was used when i was presided over the house when i passed medicare. it was used when i presided over the house when we passed the house version of the health care reform bill. it s going to be used when speaker pelosi gavels the bill into law tonight. this bill is a great piece of legislation. it ranks with medicare. it ranks with the first civil
it you re going to have higher subsidies. if he s unemployed at that sense he may be able to get the health care insurance essentially for free. another question, this is an interesting one. i ve looked into this quite a bit. this comes from jd 74. isn t defensive medicine a big factor leading to overtreatment both at beginning and end of life? what s interesting, a lot of people have been talking about tort reform. you remember, this came up a lot at the summit president obama had. would there be some sort of tort reform? medical malpractice reform, for those who don t know what tort means. liability protection, for doctors, health care professionals. he said publicly there wouldn t be this medical malpractice insurance protection in previous speeches. at the summit he was open to it, should there be some programs looking into it. if you look at the lawsuits, there are about a million people who claim some sort of harm in any given year. 11,000 lawsuits that are actually paid out.