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Get a deal. medicare can, i think, be massaged in terms of means testing. with the upper income individuals paying more or sometimes all of their medical expenses, it makes no sense for the government to pay medicare costs for someone earning $700,000 a year. so i think we can do some means testing. but by no means am i saying it should be low enough so our elderly and poorist americans are going to pay for the deficit. but we want a deal. and keep in mind, i think this is very important. if the...

Categorized as blinking. >>neil: but you just contributed saying you better not talk the entitlements or talk about social security or medicare and i know you may have your reasons but the republicans are saying, we have to give our pound of flesh and raise taxes and we are fine with it. we will do it. never mine the fact that you democrats have doubled the amount of revenues you talked about before the election, so be it. but there is nothing coming from you guys. >>guest: here is one of the th...

Down ballot are still playing a little bit of defense. highcamp is the only one to show how to effectively turn that around. >> you saw how effectively the republicans showed this jujitsu on medicare and the tax, the effect on seniors. >> theres no cuts being done by anyone in medicare. medicare is growing enormously under anyones plan. it is around $550 billion a year today. its going to go even under the to supposed ryan plan to $950 billion ten years from now. then they talk about slowing the...

could it still fall apart? we want to welcome our viewers in the united states and around the world. im wolf blitzer. youre in "the situation room". its been a day of dramatic changes in washingtons debt crisis. within the past few hours capitol hills angry partisanship gave way to serious negotiations, and then to predictions of an agreement within the very near future, one top republican, the senator minority leader mitch mcconnell declared and im quoting, hes confident and optimisti...

Position on the irs or the expansion of the irs under the new health care reform law. whats the big concern for republicans there? >> the big concern is that when you have this $950 billion piece of legislation and theres two primarily organizations that are going to work on this the department of health and human services and the irs. the question is how many workers especially on the irs front are going to be hired to sort of process up to $500 billion in subsidies and tax credits. the hhs sec...

Seat. >> all right. michael, is this a platform that the republicans can run on? and do you think they can repeal it because -- go ahead. >> we cant repeal every aspect of the health care bill but what we can do is do something about the cost of it. $950 billion at a time when we already have a defendaicit of $ trillion is just irresponsible. where republicans are going to make a difference when we take over the congress of the united states is cutting off the oxygen for this thing, cutting off ...

That now not only is alive and well and about to be signed into law, but look at the amount of people, something like 280 chairs set up in the east room, doctors, nurses, and also all kind of democratic members of congress who maybe just a couple of weeks ago were nervous politically about appearing with this president and about touting this health reform bill are getting behind it to the point that they wanted to do this on the south lawn so they could fit more people. kind of inclement weather...

Ago, president obama remains tough that he will have a healthcare bill to sign in coming days but by our coucount, lawmakers still dont have the vote. carl cameron on the hill to tell us if they made any progress today. >> reporter: eyeing a historic weekend vote on healthcare, they partook in st. patricks day. > they have a donnybrook on healthcare and even democrats are divided. despite weeks of closed door talks democrats have not agreed on the final reconciliation package of fixes to the bil...

Ago, president obama remains tough that he will have a healthcare bill to sign in coming days but by our coucount, lawmakers still dont have the vote. carl cameron on the hill to tell us if they made any progress today. >> reporter: eyeing a historic weekend vote on healthcare, they partook in st. patricks day. > they have a donnybrook on healthcare and even democrats are divided. despite weeks of closed door talks democrats have not agreed on the final reconciliation package of fixes to the bil...

But most of this comes from the nearly $2 trillion a year that america already spends on health care, but a lot of it is not spent wisely. a lot of that money is being wasted or spent badly. so, within this plan, were going to make sure that the dollars we spend go towards making insurance more affordable and more secure. >> jeanne, you and i have e-mailed about this extensively, about whether or not the presidents proposal, and the thing he talked about yesterday, is going to be more expensive ...