our next call is from the republican line, plainfield, illinois. caller: the morning, c-span. good morning, c-span. the fda cannot do the job it is already trying to do. we have senators and representatives at committee meetings talking about the fda and how it is not doing its job. so it seems to me they ought to first get the job that they are supposed to do done right before they start adding more things to them. and talk about tobacco, are you then going to talk about alcohol, obesity? you know, it just seems like the government -- there are people who want to do too much regulation. people have got to think. host: thank you for the call. we got the gist of that. from new jersey, "i do not believe the bill goes far enough. why should we control the price with supports? people do not want government control and get price supports are okay? i for one thing cannot." our next call is jean \ =ane oe independent line. caller: how are you doing? i have never called your show before. i am so glad that i got on. host: welcome. what do you think about the tobacco bill? caller: i thi

leonard is joining us on the phone from plainfield, new jersey. good morning. caller: good morning. good morning. host: good morning. caller: yeah, i think -- host: leonard, please turn the volume down on your television set. go ahead, we can hear you. caller: i think they should cut their pay, because when we do not go to work, we do not get paid. host: tania is on the phone from west virginia. good morning. caller: good morning. the new thing with the republicans seems to be, i get caught cheating, i resign from the committee. why not resign from the senate? why not resign from the government? when china is told not to trust the financial record of this country, the democrats should have them on the floor, in peach them come all the hateful things coming out of the republicans' mouth. sounds like they should be brought up on treason. host: "in politics, hypocrisy has become a heavy cross to bear for those who once sought to owned the moral high ground. as champions of those standards, they are held to a higher standard, said tony perkins, president of the family research council,

disregarded in the chrysler bankruptcy case, dangers actions are taking place which would create an even plainfield and increasingly inject political decisions with so many unintended consequences into our economy. so individual boards from companies have a responsibility for establishing compensation packages, that not only take into account the long term best interest of the company and its shareholders, but also allow them to attract the best available talent. this is a fundamental underpinning of our free market economy, and it should not be put in the hands of government bureaucrats. with that i yield back. >> the gentleman from florida for two minutes. let's hold off. let me go to the gentleman from texas for two minutes. >> thank you, mr. chairman. one of the things that's happened over the last few months is we have formed a new entity is called tse. that tax supported entities. that were the american people were impressed to these shareholders and companies that in many cases they wouldn't have invested on their own, but unfortunately that marriage was made. and i would guarantee you if yo

claiming that the government plan is simply competing with the private-sector on a so-called global plainfieldthis rehash on us that for some of the free-market plans to compete with this government run a plans always creates a not level playing field and tubes competition. the medicare program provides an important lesson here and as a political compromise medicare was set up in 1965 to pay doctors and hospitals the same rates as a private sector. faced with rising budget pressures congress quickly abandon this level playing build approach and an active presence is for doctors and hospitals. today medicare payments are 20 percent less as an engine for doctors and 30% for hospitals compared to the private sector and many doctors won't take them on. i have been told by doctors from utah that discontinues they will simply stop seeing patients altogether. and now to mention a few words about comparative and effectiveness. this is a wonderful set of terms that we do a lot with in this debate. clinical comparative effectiveness if done right can provide us with the label information while protectin

. >> you talk about havel and loving plainfield, does that mean and that's how are you going to save money and effort and saving without public plan? >> the committees are going to decide all of these issues obviously but the way we envision a public plan is and will operate the way private insurance plans do. they will have to work within the amount of money they raise from premiums, there will be no government subsidies for them. and they will have to negotiate with the providers of care and see which providers want to give care of that insurance plan as providers have to decide whether they want to do it under a private insurance plan hearing in the beginning i think the public plan will probably use medicare as a basis for the reimbursement by publicly higher than in medicare because they want to be sure that they can attract the doctors and other providers to the public plan. but a public plan will be open and transparent and i think will be looking to be even more nimble than other insurance carriers because of ill try to figure out how to provide care in a comprehensive way an