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>> get a taste of that. >> brian, thanks to you. i know that the pennsylvania chapter of americans poor prosperity despite vicious antiobama care advocacy doesnt know a whole lot about health care policy. >> what are you saying, the poverty line in pennsylvania has been $94,000? >> turns out thats not true. >> we now know that bipartisan in washington is alive and well. they conspired on thursday to put up doc fix for a voice vote unbeknownst to many rank and file members. they puts it on the fl...

Do all the different things. americans will not come help you and neither are rest of europeans of the political intimidation, economic blackmail may get putin what he wants. there will be a big bunch lawyers all debating whether that constitutes an armed attack. and as you have just pointed out, there were not guys with russian insignias in crimea. there may not be guys with russian insignia in eastern ukraine but you better believe theyre russians. jenna: were only ones splitting hairs. jon? j...

>> paying doctors based on quality incentivizes petiti s p to be as efficient and effective as possible in keeping patients healthy. this is fully paid for by a delay of obamacares individual mandate. a tax on americans to force them to purchase more expensive health care that doesnt meet their needs. >> 12 democrats join with republicans to pass the bill in the house. still house democratic leader nancy pelosi tried to discourage her fellow democrats. >> i urge my colleagues to vote against thi...

Make here. >> kerry went on to say the west will not recognize elections for crimean independence scheduled for sunday. the u.s. could impose sanctions if russia does not respect ukraines sovereignty. house lawmakers passing a decades-long delay to the obamacare individual mandate. so that delay, its tied to the so-called medicare doc fix which expires at the end of this month. why is that important? because without that doc fix, reimbursements for doctors would be drastically slashed, forcing...

Found 4 out of 5 have either already raised deductibles on employee health plans because of obamacare or are thinking about it. one viewer told mr. obama they were planning to pay the penalty instead of buying an obamacare plan because it was too expensive, although only 4.2 million have signed up, the president talked ability ten times that many who were uninsured. >> if 40 million people signed up, you could assure that probably the premiums would go down significantly next year, just because ...

Individual mandate in order to fund a doc fix to avoid a pay cut to physicians under medicare. perhaps it would be easier to simply pass the doc fix. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ told ya you could do it. (dad vo) i want her to be safe. so, i taught her what i could and got her a subaru. (girl) piece of cake. ♪ (announcer) love. its what makes a subaru, a subaru.

Vote. after weeks of the republican leadership floating various ideas on how to get something out of this supposed standoff. something like approval of the keystone xl pipeline or repeal of the health care laws so-called risk corridors or medicare doc fix or living adjustment for military retirees. after all that, they landed back at nothing. speaker boehner opting for a clean debt ceiling hike after predictable grumbling about president obama. >> hes the one driving up the debt and the question...

The next three months wont increase the nations debt. why not cut spending elsewhere? theres a lot of waste, as you know, out there. and do it and get this done with once and for all. >> its interesting, wolf. president bush signed an emergency unemployment compensation extensions five times with no strings attached. just last month, the congress acted in a bipartisan fashion to extend the so-called doc fix. thats the payment to medicare doctors for three months, no strings attached. what this b...

Find shuolutions that work for everybody. at the same time, again, theres been a long and proud bipartisan history, including, again, five times under president bush, 14 out of the last 17 times, its been extended. there have been no strings attached. and thats why, you know, the example of the medicare doc fix, where there was a three-month temporary extension while they work out a long-term fix, is -- seems like the right way to go. >> mr. secretary, i raise the question, because senator chuck...

Worry about 2014. well bring that sucker up for a vote in the house. he aint going to say that. you see, they believe, the republicans, that all of these unemployed people in america, theyre democrats. and they also believe that theyre not going to vote for the republicans anyway. so thats part of the equation. oh, we did get the doc fix in this bill. how many democratic doctors do you know? this is about the vote. most doctors in this country vote republican. most of them dont like government. ...