charles boustany. >> good evening. i'm dr. charles boustany. i'm proud to serve the people of louisiana's seventh congressional district. i'm also a heart surgeon with more than 20 years of experience during which i saw firsthand the need for lowering health cost. republicans are pleased that president obama came to the capitol tonight. we agree much needs to be done to lower the cost of health care for all americans. on that goal, republicans are ready and we've been ready to work with the president for common sense reforms that our nation can afford. afford is an important word. our country is facing many challenges. the cost of health care is rising. federal spending is soaring, we're piling huge debt on our children and families and small businesses are struggling to a jobless recovery with more than 2.4 million private sector jobs lost since february. it's clear the american people want health care reform but they want their elected leaders to get it right. most americans wanted to hear the president tell speaker pelosi, majority leader re

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dr. charles boustany, thank you for listening. >> and again, wolf, we just heard from louisiana congressman charles boustany, who's also a doctor, delivering the republican response. we've got our whole panel who's going to be with us here to give their take on the president's speech and the republican's response. take a quick break and be right back. stay any 2, 3, or 4 nights between september 13th and november 22nd, and you can earn double, triple, or even quadruple points when you pay with your mastercard card. triple-a members can get even more. better values, best western. for details, visit bestwestern.com. >>> for the most part, very, very polite inside the u.s. house of representatives before this joint session of congress, but there was some heckling, some ugly words that certainly did come forth, certainly nothing like the house of commons in london, but it was sort of unusual to hear one congressman say -- >> "you lie." >> "you lie" to the president of the united states. >> and then being booed by many democrats. we'll be telling you who that congressman is once we confirm and k

dr. charles boustany. thank you for listening. >> you have heard the president, the republican response, and now we want to hear from you. we want to know specifically what would you put in a health care plan. the president has laid down his marker, the house has passed a bill, the senate finance committee is laying down its marker next week. what would you put in a health care plan? the numbers for those who are in shortsured, uninsured, and healh care workers are on your screen the president addressed health care as a deficit problem. he talked about everyone taking responsibility. he talked about medical liability. he preferred to august as a partisan spectacle in some respects. according to several tweets that we have gotten, if you heard that during his talk about illegal aliens and health care, a member of congress yelled out, "you lie." first on our insured line is john. please go ahead. would you put in a health care reform plan? >> i would certainly like to see medical liability reform as part of

dr. charles boustany. i'm proud to serve louisiana. i'm also a heart surgeon, with more than 20 years of experience, during which saw firsthand the need for lowering health cost. republicans are pleased that president obama came to the capitol tonight. we agree much needs to be done to lower the cost of health care for all americans. on that goal, republicans are ready, and we have been ready to work with the president for common sense reforms that our nation can afford. "afford" is an important word. our country is facing many challenges. the cost of health care is rising. we're beeling huge debt on our children and families and small businesses are struggling through a jobless recovery with more than 2.4 million private sector jobs lost since february. it is clear the american people want health care reform, but they want their elected leaders to get it right. most americans wanted to hear the president tell speaker pelosi, majority leader reed, and the rest of the congress that it is time to start over on a common sense bipartisan p