congressional budget office they're released figures
that's identical ads are happy about and they feel that they will get the support
necessary to pass the reform
basically uh... the congressional budget office estimates that health care will
see
united states one hundred thirty eight billion dollars over the next ten years
and cover thirty eight million uninsured americans wrote what are your thoughts
on that now again though as you might expect i have a few thoughts about that
and here he he was really what i want to see the people are listening out there
until there are a lot of people out there who is going to friends about this
bill
and i completely understand especially
if you look at objected to look over the past year for the reasons i have
i fought hard for the public option
i fought hard for uh... a better version of these individual mandates
one one that's fair
in many ways i think this bill
taxes the middle-class directly and indirectly through the individual
mandate
at and don't sell more than it does the wealthy
there are things i object to the right things i wanna improve there are things
that even leave me like you may be
and green and frustrated and disappointed
i understand all of that but at the end of the day here's what i want to thank
you
now's the time to pass this bill
i didn't know if i would ever come to that point the last time i was on the
young turks told janet that i was probably
sixty five percent leaning against it
in the meantime i've gotten very little of what i was holding out for but i did
get some uh... not that it was given to me personally but
there were some improvements made the excise taxes that is on the middle class
is not as owners as it used to be and some other things have been approved by
it by combining the house and senate bills
so heres
the bottom line for me there are people out there who don't have health
insurance today that the
and can't afford this bill will get it for
there are people who are being kicked out of health insurance plans everyday
because they got sick and they need the plan that they've been paying for for
years
there are all sorts of other abuses there are people who need coverage they
can't get it and that go from place to place on the some of them with terrible
diseases
this bill will fix that i'm i upset
am i disappointed yes
do i strongly support passing this bill at this point yes now i do have a word
to some of the progressives who i think supported that bill
and particularly the senate help there was a group of people out there who
became cheerleaders because it was uh...
their hero's passing this bill might cast who jumped on board the senate
version way too early
and try to give us all sorts of reasons why we shouldn't object and why we
shouldn't threaten not to pass this bill
but threatening not to pass something is the way you get things improve
i congratulate purdy sanders who held out until he got twelve billion dollars
for primary health care centers put into that senate bill he threatened any
threatened to hold out i congratulate the bloggers who threaten told that i
can graduate dennis kucinich for uh... for
putting all these people put pressure on the white house to make this as
progressive ability as it could possibly be our job as progress is an activist is
not to make life easier for anybody including people we admire including the
president of the united states our job is to get the best but we can't
i think at this point this is the best but we can get so as we did with the
medicare bill as we do with the sale of civil rights bill let's pass it and then
let's make it better so that's my commentary on this
for the conservative democrats who don't like this bill
but it saves money so no conservative democrat can object to and i'm going to
carry grounds and to those out you know i will ask also close by saying we'll
talk more about this man in a few minutes but
those who genuinely happy principled opposition to abortion and i believe
there are six people out there even though i disagree with them
you also have no reason to object to this bill will go over this in more
detail but what you've been told about how this bill increases federal funding
for abortions untrue and we'll talk about this later so if you want people
to be helped
i think you need to get over whatever misgivings you have about this bill
and make sure in whatever way you can
uh... by calling your congressman or any other way make sure that this bill gets
passed that's what i have to say