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James Jordan: hanging around their neck. i believe that and many of us on this side of the aisle believe that the government has a moral mission, a mision, a moral mission to protect its citizens, whether it be terrorists or criminals on the street. there's a moral mission to the

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James Jordan: a responsibility to step in and push back that industry and say enough is enough. you're hurting people. and in our country, the government has a moal mision to stop that from happening. that's what this debate is all about. yes, the role and the

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James Jordan: all about. and our friends on the other side, you know, they say, we're for this stuff. they say, we're for it. you pull it out, we're for it. well, that's interesting. because we had some votes over the last day or so in committee. this is the house budget committee, that is starting to pass the legislation that's

8:59:58 to 9:00:18( Edit History Discussion )

James Jordan: insurance caps and baning anual and lifetime limits on health care coverage. 15 republicans voted no. we don't want to do that. holding health insurance companies accountable, 15 republicans voting no. bringing down the cost of health

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James Jordan: small business people. i mean, this is the equivalent of our friends on the other side who all voted against the stimulus pack and then they g back to their districts when money's coming in and they say, this bridge, this road, this money is going to create jobs in our district. but you voted no against the stimulus package. don't tell anybody. that's the kind of thing that's been going on in washington,

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James Jordan: have a lot to campan on and run on. but our friends on the other side like to talk a little bit about pollerizing issues. so one of the most recent polarizing issues that they have tried to pull out is the issue of abortion. and trying to say that this is

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James Jordan: focus of the family at one point, jim wallace from a magazine, a lot of evangelical and catholics, the former society general secretary of the -- associate general secretary of the conference of the catholic bishops saying that this senate health bill upholds abortion funding restrictions.

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James Jordan: going to our lady of mount carmel and i will tell you that those nuns and those administrators who run catholic hospitals, 600 of them, would not support this legislation if they believed that there was public funding for abortion.

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James Jordan: used for abortions. that's 600 catholic hospitals saying that, that's not me saying that, that's not the joel hunter and the variety of others who are professors of christian formation and discipline -- designbleship, pents could tal, leadership

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James Jordan: today, getting people all hopped up on the abortion issue. let's look at the facts, let's look what's in this bill and we're going to have that debate and just like the discussions in august about death panels and we're going to -- they were going to kill people's grandparents and all that nonsense that we heard in august, where did that go?

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James Jordan: that we're trying to address. between 2009 and 2010 monthly prices in the doughnut hole increased by 5% or more for half of the top 10 brand name drugs.

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James Jordan: just use some of the percentages here, plavix, for example, 25%, lexipro went up 25%, advair, 32%. unbelievable increases in prescription drugs. and we're asking our seniors to

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James Jordan: the brink of passing a significant piece of legislation that is not perfect and i don't think anybody says it is. we're all human here in this chamber and in the senate and the president and his team, we're all human, we're going to make mistakes, it's not going to be perfect.

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James Jordan: medicare, they don't have private insurance, they're not a veteran, so they go into the emergency room when they get sick. this is what happens. not only is that inhumane and not only i would think we'd have some kind of moral duty as elected officials in the united states to say, you know, that's

9:07:56 to 9:08:17( Edit History Discussion )

James Jordan: system where they are able to afford their health insurance and go into this exchange and be able to afford insurance, because some people say, well, i don't want to pay for those people. i got mine and i got my health insurance and i'm cool, i got a job and it's all right. but you're already paying for them because what happens is,

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James Jordan: these costs all get shifted. so you see these huge increases. so we have a system where we don't prevent anything, we wait until people get deathly sick, go into the emergency room, stay there for a week instead of getting a $20 prescription that would have saved us all a boat load of money. this is not a discussion about whether the government's going

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James Jordan: it's 2010 in america, we're the wealthiest country on the planet and we have the most dysfunctional health care system going. yes, we've got tremendous high end care but if you were setting up a system you wouldn't certainly say to 30 million people in your country, just wait until you get absolutely deathly sick and then show up at the emergency room, we'll take care of you then.

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James Jordan: how free are you when you want leave your job and go get another job but you can't because you have a pre-existing condition or your spouse has a pre-existing condition or your child has a pre-existing condition and you're stuck? that's not our idea of freedom. how free are you if you want to go start a business and create

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James Jordan: business the way you see fit? to make the investments that you want to make into capital, into technology, into worker training, into wages for your workers, more into the pension plan for workers, hire more workers.

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James Jordan: something and when you talk about what the founding fathers meant when they said life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, they meant that government has a responsibility, a moral responsibility to protect people's life, liberty and their ability to pursue happiness.