The way you're approaching this seems to be a little bit more sane in some ways in that you're saying, look, we're going to define our problem precisely, and we're going to tailor a solution to try to improve what we've got in order to try to make the system work. Now, you're not proposing--I thought it was 2,000 pages. You're saying it's coming up close to 3,000 now. You're not proposing a 3,000-page or 2,000-page solution. You're talking about one simple thing, and you can take half of the people who don't have health insurance, and you can get them insurance.
W. Todd Akin: “The way you're approaching this seems to be a little bit more sane in some ways in that you're saying, look, we're going…”
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Speaker Akin discusses health insurance reform and the need for a precise, tailored solution.
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