legislation. for example, they ve said that they want tort reform to be part of health reform. as you know, tort reform efforts were incorporated into the senate bill. they re still complaining about tort reform, still complaining that they re going to vote against it. is are you feeling like there is anything constructive coming from republicans on this, or are you just asking for that? i have been talking to republicans. i ve been talking to democrats. and i think if both sides get together, we can, for example, say let s go after the special interests rather than each other. let s try to score policy points rather than political points. let me give you an example. the republicans very much want to allow for shopping interstate. now, we have a very good provision in our bill. it s called section 1333. it would allow for interstate compacts. that s moving in the direction the republicans want to go. let s get into these policy questions. i think we can find common ground and parti
efforts were incorporated into the senate bill. they re still complaining about tort reform, still complaining they re going to vote against it. are you feeling like there s anything constructive coming from republicans on this? or are you just asking for that? i have been talking to republicans, i ve been talking to democrats, and i think if both sides get together. we can say let s go after the special interests rather than each other, let s try to score policy points rather than political points. let me give you an example. the republicans want to allow for shopping interstate. now, we have a very good provision in our bill, it s called section 1333. it would allow for interstate compacts, that s moving in the direction the republicans want to go. let s get into these policy questions, i think we can find common ground and particularly building around more choice and more competition, we can hold costs down, and that s something that will allow both sides to say we re putting the