which case then we also have time to work with the teams of physicians and the teams of providers so that we can take care of more of these communities. thank you very much for your time today. thank you. house democrats are working to nail down the final commitments for health care reform legislation, but not everyone on the left is supporting the bill. joining us now from new york is the former democratic policister and fox news contributor. good to see you today. why is it difficult for democrats to get this thing together? they re coming down to the final finish line. the public is overwhelmingly against the bill. and their passionate about it. and this has caused difficulty. the second problem is, they re trying to trade off all the interest groups to get a bill. and then after in massachusetts, we weren t gonna have one and now we re having one and the push here has been basically to get a bill done under the misillusion that if they didn t,
people were promised that we weren t gonna do that any more. the president probably wasn t happy to hear it aim times during the campaign on health care reform he said i m going to have c-span cameras in the room so the american people would know, yada, yada, sean: lamar alexander as i mentioned, brought up a lot of good points in the course of this, not the least of which is the issue of reconciliation. he read the quotes that harry reid and then senator obama had used on the issue of reconciliation. he wouldn t answer directly we would take that often table. they were saying it is unconstitutional, arrogant. now is it acceptable? what do you think the consequences are if they use that process? as you know, i later on in conversation, i brought that up again. because i had back some years ago when we republicans were
people were promised that we weren t gonna do that any more. the president probably wasn t happy to hear it aim times during the campaign on health care reform he said i m going to have c-span cameras in the room so the american people would know, yada, yada, sean: lamar alexander as i mentioned, brought up a lot of good points in the course of this, not the least of which is the issue of reconciliation. he read the quotes that harry reid and then senator obama had used on the issue of reconciliation. he wouldn t answer directly we would take that often table. they were saying it is unconstitutional, arrogant. now is it acceptable? what do you think the consequences are if they use that process? as you know, i later on in conversation, i brought that up again. because i had back some years ago when we republicans were in the majority, resisted the