jan schakowsky. indiana, democratic line. hello.n my book i would love to save more taxes to get good health care. i think that we shall have a single payer system instead of paying these lousy insurance companies to make their big ceo's all of these profits. i would rather pay more taxes, i think i would probably get a lot better health care of and what i have right now. host: anything you would like to say that? ñrguest: single payer systems ae very efficient. what that means is that the government would be the insurance company, and people would still be able to pick their doctor, go to their hospital, having the same kind of distribution system that we have for health care now, but every single person would be covered. it would be covered by a special tax for health care. as you correctly said, for most people, it would actually be less expensive and everyone would be covered. remember, the united states of america spends nearly twice as much as every other nation in the world. for person. yet we have 40 million people without h

our guest on washington journal democratic representative jan schakowsky of illinois. >> host: jan schakowskydemocrat from illinois, and district we are talking primarily here about health care and woke up, congresswoman, to this story in roll call posted last night, charlie rangel had a ways and means it healthcare talks are stalled and facing, quote, serious problems not likely to have a final bill until february. in your view well are the serious problems if there are any? >> of course we are at a historic moment right now where we do stand on the press at this of being able to offer to americans finally affordable quality health care. getting there has not been easy. there is a lot of interest involved that want to stall it as well as those that want to pass it so here we are at this moment where we have some really difficult questions about how do we pay for the bill, about affordability, are people really going to when they see the legislation when they go to those inevitable mind calculators and put in there and come and health status etc. going to find that they can afford to have hea

she is congresswoman jan schakowsky, a democrat from illinois.arate lines for democrats, republicans and independents. pelosi, hoyer, panel chairman will represent the house on health reform. they talk about 11 lawmakers meeting privately with president obama at the white house today. theegottors and house majority whip clyburn as well as senators reed baucus dodd durbin harkin. it is likely the senators will represent the chamber on the health reform compromise and one other headline before we go to calls. support grows for u.s. help the exchange. it is a "wall street journal" story. the right the white house wants to include a national health insurance exchange in the house bill which would give house democrats one of their top demands. would you care to speak more to that? >> guest: i sure would. the house bill creates a whole national pool, so that there are lots of people that are going to be able to choose, people who are uninsured right now, the self-employed, small businesses that can go into this national exchange, that will have nationa

but let me just say on behalf of the secretary, that we are grateful to have congresswoman jan schakowskyhere who has been such a leader here on these issues. so many members of the diplomatic corps, and i quickly want to recognize mr. romme don negotiated the cairo document over three years and is now with the embassy of egypt in the number two position. so welcome to him. [applause] >> and who played such an incredible leadership role, welcome. [applause] >> and for our government at the time, our former undersecretary, jim. so welcome. [applause] >> i had the best basketball here today, to present to you with great pleasure someone who has been a tireless advocate for women and girls. i'm sure each and every one of us remembers her powerful keynote address almost 15 years ago now at the un conference in beijing, when she underscored that women's rights are human rights. and among the violations of human rights, she said, is denied women the right to plan their own family. and she reminded the world that day, if we take bold steps to better the lives of women, we will also be taking bol