have a smaller plan if you have a company of 50 employees. they adjust your premiums to reflect those claims, making it very difficult for small companies. it is a large part of their expenses. under all of the new plants, small companies will be in large pools new plans. the insurance company will not be able to rate based upon the experience of the people in that group. they will have to use the broader community. that will be the rates very similar to a larger company for small companies. these are your questions. question no. 3. do you support socialized medicine? is that not what this plan is all about? well, i am our current system is not socialized medicine. we do have a public auction with the government collects the believe in diversity in our health care system. i do not believe in socialized medicine. i want an american health care system. i don t want to adopt the health care system from any other country. [applause] question number four before we go t
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we re just pushing forward. we re actually waiting for president obama. he is in the arena, with potentially a game-changing moment in a make-or-break month in health care. we re moments away from a presidential town hall in a town and a state that take their town halls seriously, portsmouth, new hampshire. the white house said it welcomes a vigorous debate, though, maybe not the kind that faced arlen specter this morning in pennsylvania. like many of his colleagues are the ex-republican, newly democratic senator stood before a crowd thatranged from resentful to downright hostile. one day god is going to stand before you and he s going to judge you and the rest of your damn cronies up on the hill. and then you will get your just desserts. i m leaving. okay. okay. okay. we ve just we ve just had a we ve just had a demonstration of democracy. well, the president will speak and answer questions in front of 1,800 people who were not handpicked. we re told that 70% of