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$4.33. if you earn between $50,000 and 99,000 it costs $512.74. if you make 100,000 or more your share will be $13,722. its not no monopoly money its your money. martha: so fox news has a special calculator to figure out what this will cost you the next couple years. you can plug your salary and find out how much you get to pay for the doc fix. bill: reports isis controls air

If you earn $250,000 or more, your share would be $13,877.22. if you like to put your salary into our taxpayer calculator to figure out what the medicare doc fix would cost you, go to foxnews.com forward slash doc hyphen fix. after all, it is your money. >> it is indeed, mike, thank you. renters should expect another increase in apartment costs this year. commercial property tracker reese says despite more apartments being built, rent is projected to rise 3.33%. rents have risen 14% since 2010...

For the fourth straight day stocks fell. starting early this afternoon, the senate has been dealing with hundreds of amendments to the budget called "vote-a-rama," which will last into tomorrow morning. only a fraction will come to final consideration. mitch mcconnell and president obama are predictably at odds over the merits over the republican spending plan. >> the new senate is prepared to pass a balanced budget that will boost jobs raise wages and drive economic growth for hardworking ame...

Kings are there in the republican house and how many people not facing reality as peter king would describe them are in the republican house? >> i asked leadership aides and a few members a few days ago what they thought the number would be if a clean homeland security bill would go on the floor, the number i got was 65, maybe as high as 85. so theres no doubt they could have moved it forward, but it would have violated the rule that says whenever you have a gop majority, you want to get the maj...

Again. what do you think, molly ball? >> it is an interesting irony when you talk about these changes to obama care. whether its the doc fix or repealing medical device tax which, again, that tax brings in revenue. thats going to increase spendsing. or, you know getting rid of those medicare cuts. all of those things end up increasing the deaf sit by increasing the cost the price tag, of obamacare. so i any that that is not too farfetched. >> i think this is the year that that structure gets scr...

The rates that doctors are reimbursed under medicare/medicaid are basically expire all the time. if they are let to expire overnight the rates theyd reimburse were drop by 25% and it would be madness. and so what you have to do keep kicking the can down the road where they have the doc fix. okay, another six months you get paid at your coordinate rates. thats the doc fix. michael steel, im going to say this. two predictions. there will not be an affordable care act repeal bill that gets out of b...

Michael steel says one does. >> itss the control act after the debt ceiling stand off in 2011. it is an anomaly. its not like republicans have restrained the growth of spending. me e my prediction is that we will see spending start to go up again. what do you think, molly ball? >> it is an interesting irony when you talk about these changes to obama care. whether its the doc fix or repealing medical device tax which, again, that tax brings in revenue. thats going to increase spendsing. or, you k...

Debt ceiling another must-pass bill, which they feel has the best leverage to against the president to fight what leadership wants to do. in april you have the medicare doc fix and may you have highway funds. these are must-pass bills cliffs if you will. with conservatives who think leadership is just rolling over for president obama can pick big fights and these divisions can rise again. jon: then there are the presidents actions. he is talking about the possibility of more executive actions. t...

>> we should say theres some unlikely allies getting rid of it. both states with huge medical device industry. >> weve got the fix coming up sometime in the spring. and i think thats a time where you can see something like a must-pass bill like the doc fix, something like that gets larded up. >> the rates that doctors are reimbursed under medicare and medicaid basically expire all of the time. and if theyre actually let to expire overnight, the rates in which ther reimbursed would drop by 25% an...

That industry will come out of this. but there is a lot of bipartisan support, partly because of that kind of lobbying. but also because of a symbolic effort to do something about the affordable care act. everyone says they want to fix it, want to tweak it, want to do something with it even if they dont want to repeal it. >> we should say theres some unlikely allies getting rid of it. both states with huge medical device industry. >> weve got the fix coming up sometime in the spring. and i think...