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The medicare patients can get their chemotherapy. if they would just come back to town and do their jobs. >> we have seen a massive consolidation in the last four years before the sequester of 40 years ago we evolved this cancer delivery system so that you can get treated in your low he cal community. and now we are devolving it and consolidating cancer care back again. patients fall through treatment cracks and have to go to the hospital. unfortunately costs not only the patients more but costs...

>> bret: continuing coverage from rome in a bit and live interview with cardinal worrel from rome. in washington no, issue has come to symbolize the fall-out from the recent sequester cut like the white house tours. president obama now says he is trying to get some reinstated. the president is changing his tune and changing his story. >> the fall-out over white house tours continues after president obama mixed up who shut them down. in an interview with abc news george stephanopoulos. >> i have ...

Maryland. watch this hysterical exchange. >> what did the presidents budget do to 317. >> the presidents prospective budget for 2013. >> does 58 cut sound familiar. >> what does the sequester cut, 30 million sound familiar? do you think thats around the ballpark, isnt it? so actually, the president cut the program twice as his budget, could i assume that the the presidents proposed cut would have reduced funding to 4,100 children in maryland? >> as per the justification that was published with t...

From the tension center and talking about the air traffic controller shortages. teacher layoffs. the goal is inflict pain as a result of the sequester cut for the public to help pressure republicans to agreeing to more tax hikes. we know that is the whole goal. we know every effort that they made to ease cuts the white house rejected. >> bret: how many more facebook appeals from the sixths graders and fourth and third graders can the white house sustain before tours start again? >> we are about ...

>> i think the president is scared. he is on the offensive. poll numbers are down a little bit. "wall street journal" poll said that republicans are closing the gap withteams when it comes to the handling of the economy. he said the economy would suffer as part of the sequester but investors disagree. the dow is up. the biggest concern is the public might figure out that cutting $85 billion out of a $3.6 trillion budget will not the end world. >> bret: a.b.? >> i agree. the president unlike what...

And the net increase is more than the sequester cut, and i can do this with a lot of boards and chalkboard better than i can talking about it, but if you have an increase in the money, minus the 85 billion tkpwhrar dollars that was supposedly cut from the across the board sequester there will be a lot of republicans, especially in the house who are very upset. jon: thinking about it, i mean the sequester numbers $85 billion that is less than one tenth of the stimulus program passed four years ag...

Deficit. >> im confident we can get there. if people of good will come together mr. speaker john boehner said he is ready to work with the president on a stop gap measure to avoid a government shutdown at the end ofham an raise doubts will the democrats are serious about long-term budget. >> the senate hasnt done a budget for four years. they committed to do a budget this year. i hope they do. >> white house officials incyst the president has already made progress on the so-called grand bargain....

Cuts into readiness as we heard the service branch chiefs talk extensively about risk and readiness crisis. so were trying to let other members know weve already been to the table in reducing military budgets and taking 50% of the sequester cut and placing it in 18% of the budget, not a smart way to go about this. we want to make sure we reduce defic deficit. this is not the smart way to do it. and it cuts at this nations ability to defend itself. >> it sounds like have you reservations about th...

Insurance plans are going to do well and hospitals are worried though, doctors are worried. theyre saying that the sequester cut which includes 2% cut to medicare providers is really coming on top of cuts and cuts, years of cuts and everyone wants to get out of medicare and its not good for patients or the american people. >> greta: the doctor shortage, losing 2% and going to cut medicare and probably not as much from medicare as a private patient in the first place and now youre going to cut 2%...

Insurance plans are going to do well and hospitals are worried though, doctors are worried. theyre saying that the sequester cut which includes 2% cut to medicare providers is really coming on top of cuts and cuts, years of cuts and everyone wants to get out of medicare and its not good for patients or the american people. >> greta: the doctor shortage, losing 2% and going to cut medicare and probably not as much from medicare as a private patient in the first place and now youre going to cut 2%...