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Have to take steps to, quote, make medicare more solvent. senator john mccain is proposing an amendment to strip the deals with individual lawmakers, the so-called louisiana purchase, strip them from the bill, and they were used, republicans say, to get votes from democratic lawmakers. jane: what are the chances of any of those amendments passing? >> not much. even senator gregg says he doesnt expect any of them will pass. he says all of them likely will go down party lines. keep in mind, if the...

Ten years of full implementation and they use it to create this new entitlement to buy this insurance for people who dont have insurance who are not seniors, by the way. and so as a practical matter that is, in my opinion, a huge mistake. if youre going to reduce medicare by those numbers, you ought to use it to make medicare more solvent. we will offer an amendment to use the money saved from medicare to make medicare more solvent, not to create new enticements. well have a number of -- entitle...