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people have pointed out to us are the flaws in the president s proposal. now let s go to the president s proposal. it was unveiled on monday. we know that 31 million people will be covered, the estimated cost $946 million. pre-existing conditions protected there. what do you like? let me start with that. what do you like about the president s proposal? well, i guess the one thing that i think most republicans would like is that he s willing to admit that maybe we could do medical malpractice reform. which is a big deal. the republicans have been pushing for this. yeah. his idea is a pilot program. our idea is real reform but we ll talk about that tomorrow. he s got a lot of taxes which we don t like. there s so much that his is just kind of a half and half, the worst as the wall street journal says, the worse of both the house and senate bills. but what do you like? do you like nothing? no. we think it ought to cover
pre-existing conditions but we do it through a market mechanism where people go to their insurance companies and in the insurance companies offset the risk with the high risk pools but everybody would get covered. it wouldn t cost an arm and a leg like the president s pr proposal. do you think a real compromise will come out of this? it certainly seems that minds have been made up before going in here. let s be honest. it s always possible. hope springs eternal. a republican won the senate seat in massachusetts, so anything is possible this year. that republican has voted against gop filibuster for the jobs bill and he was one of i believe 20 17 republicans who voted against the party in support of the jobs bill, so he is certainly operating more like an independent. well, you know, if the president and the democratic counter parts in the house and senate will put proposals on the table that are good for the american people, we ll be willing to be positive about those proposa