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Revenues from those who arent paying and the big companies are a big part of that. >> right. >> you look at companies like apple and amazon and others that have put all their international profits in protected tax havens, thats a money we should be getting. what im worried about is we spent trillions of dollars on wars that could well continue in the way that all of this tough talk is going, so were way over extended militarily. >> so what do we do as far as just the exploding costs? the explodi...

Los angeles do not speak going to need helpwn home. in the language and understanding this. and you got these folks, how long is it going to take each of the individuals to deal with each individual they are working with? i think you have -- i think you have a train wreck coming in obama care. i was talking in the green room and you know what they are going to do is the providers are going to start losing some of their income this year. the taxes applied. the exchanges all come into effect in ja...

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...

Tremendously dramatic and entertaining political theater playing out with no considerationing whatsoever for the massive amount of money, the trillions that are sucked out of our economy by these wars or wildly inefficient energy structure or the exploding costs of american health care. my goodness that would be hard. joining us now, luke russert live on capitol hill following the budget action or inaction or disshrank, depending on your point of view. >> all of it. yeah. >> tell me what i need ...

It is a much more minimalistic plan, basically recyclinged ideas, the interstate sale of insurance, medical malpractice that republicans were pushed and unable to bring into law when they held unified control of the house and senate and white house in the middle part of this decade. they were unable to bring public consensus for those ideas when they had unified control to get them into lawment i think the reality is health care is a very difficult issue. it has defeated every president whos tri...

Plan, basically recyclinged ideas, the interstate sale of insurance, medical malpractice that republicans were pushed and unable to bring into law when they held unified control of the house and senate and white house in the middle part of this decade. they were unable to bring public consensus for those ideas when they had unified control to get them into lawment i think the reality is health care is a very difficult issue. it has defeated every president whos tried for 70 years, a very complex...

Who have been working a very long time on figuring out how can we control the huge expansion of entitlements. almost all of the long-term deficit and debt that we face relates to the exploding costs of medicare and medicaid. almost all of it. that is the single biggest driver of our federal deficit. and if we dont get control over that, we cant get control over our federal budget. now, im telling all of you things you already know. maybe more personally i should just mention the fact that i now ...

Weve got to rein in the exploding costs of health care. the price tag for a single hospital admission can make your head spin. and we wondered about those eye-popping bills and how they break down. so "360s" m.d., sanjay gupta, is here to show us. sanjay? >> you are absolutely right, jessica. first of all, most people do agree on that one issue that costs are really at the heart of this. if you can control costs, you can control a lot of other things. but really, you know, the individuals, when ...

Deficit and debt that we face relates to the exploding costs of medicare, and medicaid. almost all of it. that is the single biggest driver of our federal deficit, and if we dont get control over that, we cannot get control over our federal budget. now, i am telling all of you things you already know. maybe more personally i should just mention the fact that i now have about as good health care as anybody could have. i have a doctor right downstairs. and all of us, when i was in the senate and a...