you are really left to scrape together charity care. go without care. die sooner. there aren t a lot of options. this from the house democratic leader. granny, that would be me, go out there and fend for yourself with the insurance companies. democratic campaign ad turned that issue in elderly working odd jobs to pay for medical care. such attacks would appear to violate the president appearances, prompting 42 house freshmen to send obama a letter urging him to condemn the disingenuous attacks and work with the congress to reform spending on entitlement program. if the debate stays at the attack level, the president himself may be vulnerable because his healthcare plan also puts tight limits on future medicare spending. in washington, jim angle, fox news. a federal government in indianapolis refused to block indiana s tough new abortion
you re really left to scrape together charity care, go out care, die sooner. there aren t really a lot of options. reporter: now, if the conversation goes to that level, the president himself might be vulnerable, if his own plan his own plan would put strict limits on future medicare spending and some analysts say it would go even further than the ryan plan. jon: jim angle in washington, thank you. jenna: calls for stronger security at our nation s ports. a new investigation uncovering serious security gaps. we re going to speak to a senator who wants to see big changes. also the taliban carrying on the fight in afghanistan after the death of usama bin laden. so what effect is the terror leader s demise having on u.s. forces fight thrg? we take a closer look, just ahead.
they take the guaranteed medicare benefit, and by statute, they give it to private insurance companies. they say to seniors, you will get your medicare from insurance companies. oh, that really works great so far, whether you re a senior or not. insurance companies have really helped us with health care up to now. well, it s for future medicare recipients. it s for future medicare recipients, just so we re clear on that particular point. but also, the president has also offered some pretty hard cuts on medicare, because both parties do acknowledge, you ve got to make some changes in medicare if you want to resolve the debt crisis. well, it is it s true. it s future medicare recipients. i happen to be one of them. people in their 50s, their 40s, they ve spent decades paying into the medicare system, and now the rug is pulled out from under them. they re told, you paid in, and now we give the money, not to you, not to your doctor, but to an insurance company. and with respect to th
coming out of the ryan budget proposal is changing medicare as we know it. that has nothing to do with the obama health care bill and nuthing to do with what happened recently. that s the program that we had in place for decades. the republicans argument is, look, we re an aging population. we can t sustain this and, frankly, we re all living longer. something has to be done now, right? the argument is fundamentally incorrect when it comes to medicare. what is important to know, we have to cut medicare costs. there are two separate things happening. one is he privatizes it. if you privatize medicare in about 20 years, it will cost more than if you don t privatize it because medicare is better at holding costs down than private insurance. where he saves money is if he shifts a lot of the costs on to seniors. in normal medicare, the federal government pays most of the senior s cost of medicare. under ryan s plan, a senior
talking about long-term debt reduction that gives him a greater window on what is done. if you think last week was a fight. get ready and buckle up, this one will be brutal. far-reaching consequences. it is a really big deal. a little bit harder to grasp in some ways because this is material that many of us haven t had to be experts on and the public is learning these terms, but it is a big issue and it will be a brutal fight. when you talk about in terms of medicare and medicaid and social security and what you pay in taxes, those are all things people can understand. so, we re going to continue to try to break it all down for folks. kelly, thank you today. there are some new developments in the search for serial killer on new york s long island. eight women have now been found and today police are looking for more victims. nbc s ron allen is live in jones beach, new york, for us. what is the latest from there, ron? good morning to you, chris. there are perhaps 100 state,