Protesters target Nelson

The lunch time crowd at the Columbia Restaurant had to make their way through protestors along 7th Avenue.

The group of men and women held signs that read "Cancer Can't Wait" and "Get your hands off my Healthcare".

They are against health care reform. They staged in front of the restaurant, where U.S. Senator Bill Nelson was talking to members of the Chamber of Commerce.

He was talking about drilling off Florida's coast, but they wanted to talk healthcare.

Jeannie is a cancer survivor. "I got treatment within two months, after being diagnosed. And I've been in remission 2 ½ years. So I feel very fortunate. I hope everybody else will be as fortunate," she said.

She worries the new health care bill will affect future patients.

"It'll take too long. Cancer can't wait, it keeps growing. Especially the more aggressive, the faster it grows," she said.

Francis Vivero said it has more to do with government control than it does with healthcare reform.

"Between taking over companies and taking over healthcare. It's just a matter of control. No matter if it's Republicans or Democrats, it has nothing to do with party, it's just government in general, the mentality," Vivero said.

Senator Nelson said he's received 75,000 emails, phone calls and letters since the summer from people on both sides.

He's waiting for the final Senate bill, which merges two Senate committee versions, before he decides.

"I already have voted for the health reform bill in the finance committee and if it's close to that, I expect I will be supporting it, " Senator Nelson said.

60 out of 100 Senators must approve it. It is different than the House version.

Senator Nelson said he wants to rein in the cost of Medicare. He also wants to put fees on insurance companies when they have policies worth more than $26,000 per year. The other idea would be to make taxpayers subsidize it.

"We take the approach that there is a taxpayer subsidy, for employers to give very expensive packages of health insurance, and we don't think the taxpayers ought to subsidize the very rich policies," Nelson explained.

Senator leaders have told President Obama they will have their own version voted on by the end of the year.