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>> were basically saying that over the next ten years youve got about 13 trillion, trillion dollars worth of money thats going into these tax expenditures and were saying use something like 500 billion dollars of that amount to reduce the deficit. i dont think thats asking for a lot. >> erskine, did you guys look at this issue. you heard denis mcdonough over the weekend talk about raising the eligibility of maked. he said its not a cost-saver, its a cost-shifter. did you guys look at this and de...

The affordable care act and were seeing the impact of that now. the president laid out in very -- very concise detail on tuesday night to the senate and to the country exactly what he is willing to do on medicare. the fact is, david, you just mentioned simpson-bowles. we get the same as they do in -- we get the same amount of savings in the next decade as simpson and bowles do in their plan. do we do it the same way? no, but get the exact amount of savings in medicare as they do. we have made cl...

Long-term debt, no question about it is rising health care costs and why the president did the affordable care act and seeing the impact of that now. the president laid out in very -- very concise detail on tuesday night to the senate and to the country exactly what he is willing to do on medicare. the fact is, david, you just mentioned simpson-bowles. we get the same savings from our medicare reforms as simpson and bowles do in their plan. do we do it the same way? no but get the exact amount o...