. >> well, kenneth thorpe can say whatever he wants to say. a lot of the assumptions that he made in his analysis are absolutely incorrect. chris, here's where we are as a nation. this is not debatable. we have 29 million people without any health insurance. we pay the highest prices in the world for prescription drugs. millions of our people have huge deductibles and co-payments. and, yet, per capita, we are spending three times more than the british who cover all their people, 50% more than the french, and far more than canadians. >> kenneth thorpe says that it's exactly the problems with your plan are exactly the reason that you're own state of vermont had to drop single payer. >> kenneth thorpe, i mean, you know, you quote the one guy. i think it was just a piece in one of the newspapers today by the foremost experts on single payer systems who really denounced kenneth thorpe and his analysis. >> finally, sir, the republicans have held debates on all the networks but the democrats so far have refused to hold a debate on fox. you are coming