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Fear that tomorrow and changing it might be worse. also its toxic in washington for a party in power to take away benefits already provided. throwing 11 million newly insured off medicare rules could hurt many. >> they got better coverage under this law then they had before. for low income people that had a hard time affording premiums in the pre-obamacare world, they got pretty big subsidies. >> president trump said tuesday that free market forces will play a big part in the g.o.p. plan. tax cr...

Who needed specific action taken. he wanted the secretary of health and human services to say that he was not ripping off medicare. he was being accused of ripping off medicare. he gave all sorts of gifts to -- to menendez. menendez went to harry reid and menendez and harry reid went together to sebelius to try to intervene in this case. now, sebelius told them look this is out of my hands. the medicare investigators are going to go about their business, and if they find that hes committed fraud...

Willing to consider $400 billion more in revenues as a starting point from tax reform if the president is keeping his offer on the table. and, david, as you know, these are tough things the president agreed to. means testing, medicare. that means higher premiums for well off medicare recipients. $400 billion over 10 years in medicare savings. and the hardest of all -- >> just to point out -- >> of the consumer price index. >> thats not what senate democrats put in their replacement legislation. ...

Willing to consider $400 billion more in revenues as a starting point from tax reform if the president is keeping his offer on the table. and, david, as you know, these are tough things the president agreed to. means testing, medicare. that means higher premiums for well off medicare recipients. $400 billion over 10 years in medicare savings. and the hardest of all -- >> just to point out -- >> of the consumer price index. >> thats not what senate democrats put in their replacement legislation. ...

Increase that came out of that. there was not balance which is what the president says hes for now. there was no spending cuts. it was just revenue. thats what the speaker said. you got your revenue. now where are the cuts? >> let me answer. obviously, the president wanted the balanced agreement. the speaker walked away. we wanted an agreement that included long-term entitlement reform. and we give the speaker credit for the $600 billion. but ill do a simple math equation, david. if he put $1 tr...

The $716 billion. they are on the offense. they dont no have a plan. the republicans this week did something which john said which is very important: they, for the first time, started to move this issue which they better do, from medicare to obamacare. since the supreme court decision handed them this, and we have talked about it, republicans have abandoned it and now they are back to obamacare. >>gregg: david axelrod said my 85-year-old dad will be kicked off medicare if romney is elected. that...

Fact that it touchs ryans home state, the president is at 266 and romney has to win everything else. hes got to win ryans home state. hes got to win colorado. hes got to win nevada. hes got to win north carolina, virginia, and ohio. he cant afford -- and look at this. hes still not there. it comes down to tiny new hampshire. as you see the numbers here are very difficult for romney if he loses florida. you put new hampshire, as we told you, new hampshire sitting there, it would teeter back and f...

Comfortable with? who do you believe is going to represent your values when it comes to restoring the economy and dealing with the deficit and spending? i think thats mitt romney. >> to me its a battle of what issues become the defining issue. he left off medicare and social security, understandably. i have a feeling the president is going to want to push medicare on to that table and say, this is about the economy, taxes, and the safety net. >> what you saw robert gibbs do on this show a couple...

The very top. its not a balanced approach. its a totally lopsided approach and what we really need is an approach that makes tough cuts. as you know, the republican control act, we cut more than a trillion dollars over ten years. that was 100% cuts. but we need some balance. if were going to responsibly address this issue, weve got to ask the folks at the very top to go back to contributing a little more to reduce the deficit because otherwise, as i said, the math is pretty clear. otherwise your...

Proposing. beginning with the affordable care act, worked to reduce the overall costs in the medicare system by changing the incentive structure based on the volume of care to one based on the value of care. thats very different than what romney/ryan are proposing, which is to shift those costs on to seniors, seniors who have a median income of $23,000. at the same time they are providing these huge windfall tax breaks to the very wealthy, to people like mitt romney. so these are the facts and i...