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The class act, this is the new long-term care insurance program and use it to pay for current benefits and the $500 billion they take out of medicare, theyre stealing from medicare to start a new entitlement program and if there are savings for medicare, why wouldnt we roll it back in to save medicare and to prolong the trust fund thats there to fund it? >> leader boehner, theres a question of the cost of inaction. ron brownson writes it about it in his "national journal" column. he writes "in a...

And tax credits for small businesses and individuals to get insurance. >> but the 32 million dont get covered until 2014. >> well phase them in, thats accurate, david, and well phase them in because this is a very large, complex program. >> david, most of this doesnt go into effect for four years. >> hes correct. >> except the tax increases and medicare cuts go into effect immediately. we have ten years of medicare cuts, ten years of tax increases, to pay for six years of this new program. and w...

It and ignored your question about that, in other words, adding the cost in would have widened the deficit spending but, we talk about six years of reforms, being paid for with ten years tax hikes, and, levies and fees and the thing is some of these tax kick in in 2014, excise tax on cadillac plans and kicks in and the president wants -- and that could be, you dont think anybody will negotiate that out of the bill and get the tax hikes wiped away and you have $124 billion in double-counting from...

Jesse james. the paparazzi has been swarming. theyve been following him around on the highway. its been absolutely crazy. fans have just been having an outpouring of support for her. >> i think shes played it smart, dont you think? she is laying low which keeps us from getting really good, new details, right? thats what it is. he issued his apology. do we know if theyve talked or anything like that? >> we dont know details like that. unfortunately, we probably know more details than we want to k...

Of what a lot of the american people want to know. they know the broad strokes perhaps of this bill, but lets talk about three things many americans may not know are in the bill. number one, did you know in this health care bill it allows employers to raise or lower your premiums by 30% or 50% based on your health? based on things like cholesterol levels, based on your weight. this is called the safeway plan, and the idea is to encourage wellness, but your premium could go up and down based on w...

Budget office. where double counting 70 billion dollars from class act premiums. double counting premiums from social security taxes not counting 71 billion dollars in appropriations that are necessary to run this new government-run health care. 10 billion of that goes to the irs to hire about 16,000 agents to police this new mandate on all americans. 398 billion dollars just from medicare part a. you add all of that up and this bill-- >> congressman paul ryan pointing out facts from the cbo. ta...

Cbo has to score it. there will be double counting. social security revenues. payroll taxes in there that will be counted towards the, quote, health care costs. second, that there will be this long term care premium class act which new entitlement built into the senate bill for long-term care. count the $72 billion or whatever the number ends up being for premium payments will be counted towards health care expenses. >> bill: mr. rove, with all due respect i dont know what you are talking about....

Cbo has to score it. there will be double counting. social security revenues. payroll taxes in there that will be counted towards the, quote, health care costs. second, that there will be this long term care premium class act which new entitlement built into the senate bill for long-term care. count the $72 billion or whatever the number ends up being for premium payments will be counted towards health care expenses. >> bill: mr. rove, with all due respect i dont know what you are talking about....

Cbo has to score it. there will be double counting. social security revenues. payroll taxes in there that will be counted towards the, quote, health care costs. second, that there will be this long term care premium class act which new entitlement built into the senate bill for long-term care. count the $72 billion or whatever the number ends up being for premium payments will be counted towards health care expenses. >> bill: mr. rove, with all due respect i dont know what you are talking about....

The doctor fix the president says that is 371 billions. they are pushing that outside of this bill. then double counting revenues from social security, from this new class act program and duck counting medicare cuts. >> greta: are they right in saying -- we should be cutting down on fraud regardless, we should have been doing that for years is there a way to quantify have a determined effort to cut out fraud? >> medicare fraud is already a illegal. weve been trying to get at medicare fraud for 4...