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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20110105:06:06:00

Is not about the rhetoric of obama care which the republicans did a great job of vilifying. it s about practical benefits that will help the middle class. we have donna watts from plainfield, vermont. her son got out of high school. got a job, ten bucks an hour. but didn t have health care as most entry level jobs don t. he got in a car crash. thousands of dollars of bills. that whole family is trying to figure out how to pay them. under the health care bill, donna s son would continue to have health care on her policy. and the repeal will take that away. or let s say your husband or wife has cancer, pre-existing condition. under the health care bill, they have a right to buy health insurance. under the repeal, they lose that benefit. your mom and dad are seniors and they re taking care of themselves, they can get free preventive care under medicare under the obama health care legislation. the repeal s going to take that away. so the question that we re going to ask is are they willing ....

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20110105:03:12:00

Experience with no one in the congress until tomorrow when also a physician from tennessee is sworn in with this public ops. i d be delighted to discuss that in detail. we act like that the only option to repeal this is not to replace it is absolutely alternatives. you can t spend a trillion dollars and you can t have a 2500 page bill which i ve read and not have some things that are in it that are good, pre-existing conditions and so fort. absolutely i d be delighted to do that in my district. congressman roe, would you be delighted to vote for repeal of the congressional health care plan? and do you participate and use the government-run congressional health care plan for you and your family? i do. and it s the only option i had. it s not the only option you have. you can opt out of it and you can buy your own private insurance. it is not mandatory for you to take it. lawrence, which i did until i got here. now i m an medicare. we talked about the public option so congr ....

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20110105:06:12:00

In detail. we act like that the only option to repeal this is not to replace it is absolutely alternatives. you can t spend a trillion dollars and you can t have a 2500 page bill which i ve read and not have some things that are in it that are good, pre-existing conditions and so fort. absolutely i d be delighted to do that in my district. congressman roe, would you be delighted to vote for repeal of the congressional health care plan? and do you participate and use the government-run congressional health care plan for you and your family? i do. and it s the only option i had. it s not the only option you have. you can opt out of it and you can buy your own private insurance. it is not mandatory for you to take it. lawrence, which i did until i got here. now i m an medicare. we talked about the public option so congressman, we can just pause for a second. you are on the pure government-run health care plan called medicare, which you are ....

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20110105:06:09:00

Us this is what they re going to do on repeal. we ve heard the democratic response to repeal will be. isolating specific pieces of the bill, some of which are very popular, that congressman roe will be voting to repeal. for example, the advantage to seniors on prescription drugs that s built into the medicare provisions of this bill. the pre-existing conditions, many other popular elements in the bill. every republican it sounds like in the house will vote to repeal those things. what do you expect the democrats to be able to do with those votes when they take them into the next congressional campaign? well, they definitely will be able to hold republicans accountable. this is really a kind of a first moment for democrats to show that they can do what republicans did so well the last couple of years, which is stay unified on an important vote. i m glad that mark brought up the will of the people because there s a big associated press bill that showed that americans think the bill tha ....

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20110105:06:13:00

let me tell you what i was going to say, lawrence, was this. we think a public option is a good idea until you reach the age of 65, and then you have no public option. i mean, the only things you have is a public option. you don t have a private alternative. you can t go out and buy your own insurance. sure, you can. you can go out there and buy any supplementary insurance you want. no, no. very expensive supplementary mshs, get your private rooms in hospitals, get all that built in on private insurance plans that supplemental medicare. you can do that. you re absolutely right, supplements. but it is not instead of medicare. i don t have an option. i can go to the medicare rules that i dealt with in legislation that are honor onnerous for patients. when i came here i came here as nonbipartisan as a human being can come. i came here with the idea of trying to work on a program. let me tell you what i thought ....

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