alec mcgillis is a healthcare reporter and can't answer that question. eddie on the republican line. go ahead. caller: i don't consider it reform at all. i think it is more of the same. that's all we're going to do is just insure more people. we're nation of litigants. we have twice as many lawyers as we have doctors. we're just going to have three times as many lawyers as doctors. the beauty of europe is that a doctor in a hospital is sacro sanct. you don't bite the hand that feeds you. don't go there and sue them, please. host: what about tort reform? guest: you're right. there is some language raring tort reform. i think about 25 million or $250 million to encourage states to head up some new pilot programs to deal with the problem of malpractice, concerns about malpractice. you know, and just beyond that, you said that you don't see this bill as reform, there are a lot of people that think that's really true in a broader sense, that this bill did a lot to cover the 40 million americans that don't have coverage but didn't do enough on the side of redu

alec mcgillis is a healthcare reporter and can't answer that question. eddie on the republican line. go ahead. caller: i don't consider it reform at all. i think it is more of the same. that's all we're going to do is just insure more people. we're nation of litigants. we have twice as many lawyers as we have doctors. we're just going to have three times as many lawyers as doctors. the beauty of europe is that a doctor in a hospital is sacro sanct. you don't bite the hand that feeds you. don't go there and sue them, please. host: what about tort reform? guest: you're right. there is some language raring tort reform. i think about 25 million or $250 million to encourage states to head up some new pilot programs to deal with the problem of malpractice, concerns about malpractice. you know, and just beyond that, you said that you don't see this bill as reform, there are a lot of people that think that's really true in a broader sense, that this bill did a lot to cover the 40 million americans that don't have coverage but didn't do enough on the side of redu

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. >> alec m mcgillis, co-author oç live coverage for you when it begins.the associated press reporting on the latest. in fact, reporting on president obama's comments about the case today. this way, the f.b.i.'s investigating the suspect in last weekend's failed times square car bombing for possible ties to terrorist groups. president obama said today. speaking hours after a suspect was pulled off a plane about to depart for the middle east. mr. obama said justice will be done in the incident. the president also said hundreds of lives may have been saved through quick action by ordinary citizens and local, state and federal authorities on saturday night. law enforcement officials say the suspect recently returned from a trip to pakistan and bought the 1993 pathfinder three weeks ago and paid cash for that vehicle. again, from an a.p. story on the president's comments on that case. again, we are waiting for eric holder, the attorney general, and other officials on the arrest and the investigation into the new york city attempted car bombing. we'll bring thi