What we are talking about here this evening is the proposition that the Congress will take over, over a period of time, one-sixth of the U.S. economy. That is the health care section of the economy. Obviously, this big a change, a remake…

Well, there are just so many things in this bill to talk about, and that's why you have such old and young, male and female--the public just doesn't like this bill. And the reason is because there's stuff for everybody to hate in this…

So you've got Medicare, which is reimbursing doctors at 80 cents on the dollar, which means that somebody's got to make up the 20 cents. So we do a cost shift and shift that 20 cents into Medicare and dump that cost onto people who have…

So if you know nothing else about the bill, this is saying, Well, this is something to pay attention to. Now we haven't talked about some of the other nifty features. This is what gets me worried. This is what I don't like the most. And I…

So let's try and get up to 50,000 feet here and take a look at the sort of choices there are before Americans as to how we approach health care. It seems to me that in the beginning, you've got the sort of supply and demand situation. If…

You know what amazes me about that, gentleman, is I have heard various news outlets and various individuals, even people of political stripes saying that this bill is being held up by the Republicans. Now, somehow that just tickles my…

Let me just restate that. That is really an amazing premise, isn't it? This bill is going to insure 30 million more Americans and it's going to be budget neutral. Do you think people believe that?

I had a telephone town hall with my constituents last night, and I just asked them whether they thought it was a good idea for the government to be taking this over. And it was about 90 percent even said they just don't trust the…

So when the government doesn't have enough money to pay, they just say, well, we're not going to cover certain things because they're too expensive.

So the government makes a decision as to whether or not you are going to get care or not, which is rationing.

And so you have here in the U.K., these numbers here, this is women, but this isn't just breast cancer, but cancer in general for women, the survival rate at 52 percent or 53 percent, 66 in the U.S. So this difference is because of the…

So if you want to know why the telephones have been ringing off the hook, and there are a whole lot of people who don't like this bill, here is a whole block of people. Anybody who might get cancer, this is a pretty good reason not to like…