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  1. can people keep their insurance or not? If there's a text that is on the record, we'll know and we can stop the conjecture.
  2. Instead of both sides demonizing each other without facts or a text to keep returning to, nothing is going to get done. Case in point:
  3. How about an op-ed that lists all the key bullets and a paragraph of why. No one is going to read 1K pages of anything.
  4. a distraction. Let all that stuff go. Request from WM to WH: send clear bullet points of Obama's plan to the media and ask them to run it.
  5. WM: Having Pelosi charge out of the gate in a manner that was steam roller-like was counter-productive. Pointing fingers at the Reps is also
  6. WM: The frequent mention of "expanding the market" should have been made at the start of this last month. that's more appropriate.
  7. Prez: Thanks for your questions, and great callers. Let's keep up this thoughtful dialogue. Bye.
  8. Prez: As for young people who need it, we want to offer them chance to stay on parents' until they're 26.
  9. Prez: so that we can have it be more fair and available. want to create a market for them.
  10. WM: Okay--but you've already said (before I got my pc fired u p) that Medicaid was broke. Prez: part of what doing is reform system
  11. Prez: No one said the gov't would admin all of healthcare. Public option would be run like business. The track record for gov't is good.
  12. Prez: Understand that our proposal involves the states. They'd be empowered to expand medicaid (WM: he already said that was broke, though)
  13. Caller: so why not give incentives to the states who use their resources more wisely? We want healthcare decisions being made locally.
  14. Caller: We want healthcare reform. But, many Americans think the gov't will take the $ and apply to admin a huge bureaucracy...
  15. Prez: and finish the job in Afghanistan.
  16. Prez: eliminate their allies and keep pressure up. This is at great cost. More are falling in Afghanistan than Iraq. We need to stay
  17. Prez: More troops on east and south borders in Afghanistan, but the Taliban leaders are also ramping up. Goal then is to squeeze more and
  18. Smerc: What about our hunt for Bin Laden?
  19. Prez: Don't like this decision. We've been in contact with families. WM: no mention of how cancer fits into this, tho.
  20. Smerc: Discuss cancer patient Lockerbie bomber being freed