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'Special Report' Panel on Fate of Health Care Reform ; Big Banks Scolded

This is a rush transcript of "Special Report With Bret Baier" from December 14, 2009. This copy may not be in its final form and may be updated.(BEGIN VIDEO CLIPS)PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA: I think it is going to get this out of the Senate before Christmas.SE N. JOE LIEBERMAN, I-CONN.: We don't need to keep adding on to the back of this horse because we are going to break the horse's back and get nothing good.SEN. BEN NELSON, D-NEB.: We don't know what it will cost. The second thing is I'm concerned that it's the forerunner, the under the ultimate single-payer plan, maybe even more directly than the public option.CHRIS WALLACE, HOST: Overall health care spending goes up, not down: You will vote against it?SEN. CLAIRE MCCASKILL, D-MO.: Absolutely. Here is the other thing —WALLACE: What happens then?MCCASKILL: We will go back and look at other proposals. Here's the thing: Doing nothing is not an option.(END VIDEO CLIPS)BRET BAIER, HOST: Well, there are Democrats, the president saying he wan...

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