Update 6: The wingers are going to twist this answer into rationing.
Update 5: Tapper, ok, we know the benefits, what about the costs? The sacrifices? Are Americans going to have to give up anything in the process? Answer: They'll have to give up things that aren't making them healthier.
Update 4: Chuckles gets a followup and goes for Dems in diarray. What a shocker. Obama says nice things about "serious" Republicans. The Dems, well, "because this is a big issue, a lot of Dems have different ideas." Normal give and take.
Update 3: YES! Talk about the cost to the whole system, to all of us who are insured, of trying to provide care for all those who aren't.
Update 2: Q3: Chuckles: Will this cover all uninsured, or mandate, or not all the way there, how far is enough? 20 million more? 10 million more? Answer: "I want to cover everybody." But we're not gonna do single payer so we aren't going to actually cover everybody. We'll get 97-98 percent with the plans Congress has in the works now. Was that kind of a waste of a question by Chuck?
Update 1: Q2: Reuters, "Why the rush?" Answer: because the people need to have this fixed. Duh. And if you don't set deadlines in this town, it won't happen. "Default in this town is inertia." (Ahem, Max Baucus and Kent Conrad. Not to mention Jared Polis and Mike Ross.)
Covering a lot of ground already well-established, but repetition is the only way to get this through to the traditional media, and to the people. It won't make a damned difference with the Republicans, but it will help with folks watching at home.
Bottom line so far: "I'm the president and I think that this has to get done."