nodding her head on this one. wayne hit the nail on the head. we re a litigious society. all we do is sue. before somebody sues me, i think i misspoke and i said you make $400 an hour at home depot. you only make $15. $400 is the weekly check. i haven t had my coffee yet. we are going to sue for everything. some notion of tort reform has to be discussed or it will continue to spiral. doctors will be making a mere $15 an hour because that s all they ll have left after paying all the law bills. cheryl, the reason it will continue to spiral is that the reform actually, of course, increases government. you know that junk lawsuits, frivolous lawsuits are widespread now and the government is a big player in healthcare. it will increase. i mean, everything will. n.i.h. to the f.d.a., essentially, cheryl, the market doesn t self-regulate. for example, a lot of patients say sure, i ll take that medication.
can t we get that money out of there? we do such a great job here in washington ringing out the cost. $1.6 trillion deficit this yea . only in washington wag can you say with a straight face you are going to spend $1 trillion and save taxpayers money. democrats are leaving out $200 billion in spend thath speaker of the house committed to spend, which makes this, using this cbos numbers, it makes it a bill that adds to the deficit in the sho short term and long term. you expand the federal government s role in health care without giving the american people more health care choices by purchasing across state lines, without passing any medical malpractice reform, ruffle one-third of health care are defensive medicine driven by junk lawsuits. the american people know this is going to cost more and add more
choices by purchasing across state lines, without passing any medical malpractice reform at all. roughly a third of health care costs in this country i hear are actually defensive medicine driven by junk lawsuits. the american people know this is going to cost more and add more to the deficit, add more to the debt, cost higher taxes even than the rosiest scenarios that are presented. it is not always accurate, as you know. that s all that we can vote on. sure, absolutely. but it still is one of those things we might not find out except from ten years from now. there are numerous reforms that are going to take effect, including the inability to rescind your insurance policy. pre-existing conditions. for women across this country, candy, i mean their birth is a pre-existing condition. domestic violence is a pre-existing condition. a c-section is a pre-existing condition. john, john, my wife had a pre-existing condition.
make that decision and you pass that as a stand-alone bill, all that happens is that everybody who is young and healthy says, well, i m not going to pay for health insurance now. i ll wait until i get sick and then i ll get health insurance. so those who are sick and have to carry health insurance see skyrocketing premiums. you have to pass health care as sort of this three-legged stool, right? i think we ought to go step by step in a positive direction. one is how do you do that? you let everybody buy insurance across state lines. 12 million more people are covered if that happens today. you give personal incentives for people who stay healthy. you let small businesses join together. you deal with junk lawsuits. you help young people who are 21 stay on their family plan until they re 25 or 26 so they re not kicked off and out there trying to shop around for care and for insurance. you can do a lot of things to deal with these numbers. senator, here s what i know. if we re st
pretend it passed and no one voted for it. i assume they could make it happen. the question is not whether they can do it. but how the public is going to receive. you think they are angry about the special deals in the senate bill. wait until they hear the house of representatives sent it for the president s signature and they were all able to claim they didn t vote for it. greta: i suspect you are not so magnanimous thank you want to tip them off to keep their constituents happy. you are saying it so they take a different action. there is a way to keep their constituents happy. shelf this bill and start over and go step-by-step to work on cost problem. greta: let s say it doesn t pass many congressman ryan s estimate is 10 short. if it doesn t pass is health care over? health care reform over? we ought to start over go step-by-step and do things like fixing the junk lawsuits against doctors and hospitals,