Bob Filner: “My Republican friends need to chill out. The previous speaker said this is a government takeover of a health care…”

“My Republican friends need to chill out. The previous speaker said this is a government takeover of a health care system. Come on. Let it go. We've got a private system here. We've got a private system of insurance. We've got private hospitals, we've got private doctors. This system is a private system. What government takeover is there? She keeps talking about a government bureaucrat getting between you and your doctor. What we have now is an insurance bureaucrat between us and our health providers. What we do is remove that. And if you want to repeal this bill, make my day. Try to repeal it. Repeal the fact that small businesses are going to get tax credits right away. Repeal the fact that our children, who have preexisting conditions, will be able to be insured right away. Repeal the fact that we won't have any more preexisting conditions to prevent health insurance. Make my day.”