Dying Effort?

" Henneberg thank you very much passage of the health care plan is far from a done deal as President Obama encounter some resistance even from Democrats. Congressman Charles who's standing of Louisiana as a member of the house Ways and Means Committee and himself a doctor he joins us now congressman thanks for joining Bryant really good to be with what -- Healthcare is broken we all know -- broke -- I mean we hear these stories about how to lose for elderly people to find doctors. And we need to fix it but this plan seemed to have its own set of problems and that it's very expensive. What is very expensive and we're just starting to see what he really expensive plans going to be CBO. The Congressional Budget Office had really not school -- this had not looked at but the cost was going to be in terms of deficits. Just today they released some preliminary figures showing a deficit of over 230 billion dollars. And this is an incomplete estimate so we think it's going to be actions -- while so what's gonna happen here -- mean the president says we will do this we won't do it this year and we're gonna do it in -- in the budget we're not gonna run up the deficit with this plan. How do you do all that. We'll certainly what he said it is. Count -- to what -- house Republican plan -- house Democrat plan looks like I should say. This past in Ways and Means Committee. In the wee -- Friday morning. We have to start over. We Republicans have some very good ideas on how we can park it solutions to the uninsured. How we can keep cost down. And and enhance quality preserve the doctor patient relationship and process congressman. You're Republican and democratically controlled institutions are they listening to Republican ideas right now it doesn't seem to me that's seen much of that going on. Well that's an interesting development occurring behind the scenes right now we're by some of them moderate Democrats the so called blue dog -- Democrats and and business friendly. -- Democrats are actually starting to have conversations with us. To build coalitions from the center outward. Actually really come up with substantive and well founded health care reform that's the only way to do this yet but -- speaker of the house is not a blue dog Democrat I know that and that's the problem. But we think that if we can build enough public opinion on this it will force the issue. Because the American public wants health care reform Republicans agree that needs to be done and have begun carefully and in a prudent way that doesn't just look the whole system. Congressman Charles -- and thank you very much for joining us here livelihood I think everybody wants to see some success here we're just not sure how we're gonna get their -- for."