If we do nothing, as the Republicans suggest, we're going to see health care costs reach a point where small businesses can't afford it and families can't afford it. We're going to see people turned down from pre-existing conditions. We're going to find the Medicare doughnut hole - a gap in coverage that's going to hurt a lot of seniors.

You know, the purpose of reconciliation is to avoid the filibuster. The filibuster is an effort to talk something to death.

We will have health care reform in America.

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