Capitol Hill House Call

" Moving -- the health care debate now house Democrats. Meaning behind closed doors working to figure out how to pay for president Obama's -- to the nation's health care system. The price tag could hit one trillion dollars could be more who knows. Whose gonna foot the bill. Let's bring in Wyoming senator John -- he is. He is the fourth medical doctor to serve in the Senate in just the past fifty years the fiftieth overall 51 overall. Doctors senator Barack so thank you -- it looks to us like this. May or may not be off the table looks more like it's off the -- you talk about taxing health benefits so the answer and seemed to be taxing those. The rich those who make more than 250000. Dollars but aren't you kind of going after the small businesses again you're hurt the people that are trying to create the jobs."

" That's my big concern that is -- slowly my big concern for small businesses all across the country. That's the engine that drives our economy. That's where jobs are created -- I think any effort by this administration to tax those people to create those jobs is gonna make it tougher. For our country and our economy to recover you know the people of American I was back in Wyoming last week they'll be there again tomorrow. The people of Wyoming get it right they're worried that congress is gonna screw it up and especially when it involves. 16 of -- Aren't aren't. The entire economy -- have great concerns you know people are worried about senator is that is that these numbers that the administration is spending about the 150 billion dollars in the hospitals they're gonna give up in the hundred billion dollars the pharmaceutical companies you give up."

" They're worried they have that these are these goals these -- hard fast numbers there -- goals and really I mean the bottom line is. Isn't the administration is throwing these numbers -- need this stimulus numbers and those stimulus numbers now we found out -- way off mark."

" They were way wrong with the stimulus and even though the vice president's admitted that I think there way wrong one. One cap and trade -- called cap and tax and -- wrong on this but the problem traces. People aren't even gonna be able to read this bill they couldn't read the stimulus bill and they I didn't read the cap and trade bill when they threw an extra 300 pages. That what 3 in the morning. And you know what they -- Steny -- that one of the leading Democrats in the house yesterday if he thought members of the Democrats are gonna read the bill before they voted to pass it on health -- and he laughed he actually laughed out loud. About the idea that people would read the bill. These bills ought to be shared with people all around the country all the great ideas don't come from Washington they come from America they come from Wyoming they come from all of the states. People need to be able to read the bill that it wasn't jobs or about elect is the Michael Jackson bill -- written and ready so they can read that Billy Idol on your right we'll take a long time my final question is when they say a 150 billion dollars from hospitals. The question as you've been there. Doctor I have -- this money come from the got to get it from some somewhere right. Well -- every senator I talked to his talk to their hospitals back home everyone says it's not coming from our state so I'm not sure where it's coming from I don't know this seems to be really a pie in the sky number. And no local community hospital. Is able to come up with that with that with anything to contribute to this number so I think it's. So I think it's an absolutely false number I gotta go senator John -- doctor Russell thanks there."