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Universal health care strategies. trying to kill medicaid. we are going -- we are facing really unhealthy future for americans, particularly women, and particularly women who are poor. >> now let me ask you to stand by one minute, congresswoman. id like to bring in patrick hurd and his wife betsy. pat is the ceo of planned parenthood of southeastern virginia and betsy is currently battling breast cancer and has run in the komen fund-raising races in the past. thank you both for joining me this e...

Spending and the senate has never done anything and havent passed a single bill to keep the government -- >> does it make sense to shut down the government now that you have gotten the big cuts. >> i want to get off of tens of billions of dollars, 2 to 4%, shaving off our budget deficit and get into the debate of trillions of dollars and that is where well go this week. but put the emphasis where it ought to be, the senate democrats have not passed a bill to prevent a shut down, we have passed t...

Says medicare can stay on its current path, even obamacare acknowledges that and we shouldnt measure ourselves against a mythical future of medicare that is not sustainable. medicare itself literally crowds out all other government spending at the end of the day. we cannot sustain that. we have to get medicare solvent. rick foster, the chief actuary came to the budget committee the other day and said one of the best things we can do to save medicare and bend that cost curve, and help inflation i...

Spending and the senate has never done anything and havent passed a single bill to keep the government -- >> does it make sense to shut down the government now that you have gotten the big cuts. >> i want to get off of tens of billions of dollars, 2 to 4%, shaving off our budget deficit and get into the debate of trillions of dollars and that is where well go this week. but put the emphasis where it ought to be, the senate democrats have not passed a bill to prevent a shut down, we have passed t...

Election arent democrats going to be able to say, look at paul ryan, and the house republicans, they want to kill medicare and kill medicaid and gut the programs you depend on, arent you playing into the democrats hands. >> we are giving them a political weapon to go against us but theyll have to lie and demagogue to make it a political weapon. look we dont change benefits for anybody over the age of 55, save medicare and medicaid and entitlement programs and repair our social safety net and get...

Increases, the key is, nobody says medicare can stay on its current path, even obamacare acknowledges that and we shouldnt measure ourselves against a mythical future of medicare that is not sustainable. medicare itself literally crowds out all other government spending at the end of the day. we cannot sustain that. we have to get medicare solvent. rick foster, the chief actuary came to the budget committee the other day and said one of the best things we can do to save medicare and bend that co...

To be able to say, look at paul ryan, and the house republicans, they want to kill medicare and kill medicaid and gut the programs you depend on, arent you playing into the democrats hands. >> we are giving them a political weapon to go against us but theyll have to lie and demagogue to make it a political weapon. look we dont change benefits for anybody over the age of 55, save medicare and medicaid and entitlement programs and repair our social safety net and get or country a debt free country...

Cutting health care services to the poor and the disabled. >> let me say one thing, medicare and medicaid spending will go up, every, single year under or budget. they dont just go up as much as they are going now because they are growing at unsustainable rates, three programs alone, medicare, medicaid and social security take over all government revenues by the time my kids are my age, they are 6, 7 and 9, at the time when they raise their children, three programs crowd outside every other fede...

The block grants you will be cutting health care services to the poor and the disabled. >> let me say one thing, medicare and medicaid spending will go up, every, single year under or budget. they dont just go up as much as they are going now because they are growing at unsustainable rates, three programs alone, medicare, medicaid and social security take over all government revenues by the time my kids are my age, they are 6, 7 and 9, at the time when they raise their children, three programs c...