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Unelected board, refused to listen. spends more money on a closing plan than on keeping schools open. closes schools that have 92% graduation rate. closes schools that are doing well. if you do that, then what choice does community have but to say enough is enough? even in it means getting arrested. >> she did get arrested and spoiler alert, she was not successful in her efforts. the schools are still closed. randy weingarten was protesting from closing 23 schools across the city of philadelphia...

Find way toss do things better are able to be more effective in bringing down the cost than the government ever will be. your example of the cleveland clinic is my case in point, along with several others i could describe. this is the private market. these are small -- these are enterprises competing with each other, learning how to do better and better jobs. i used to consult to businesses -- excuse me, to hospitals and to health care providers. i was astonished at the creativity and the innova...

Said do not do this. the republicans had a plan. they put a plan out. they put a bipartisan plan, it was swept aside. i think something this big, this important, has to be done in a bipartisan baitionz. we have to have a president who can reach across the aisle and fashion important legislation with the input of both parties. >> governor romney says this has to be done in a bipartisan basis. this is a bipartisan idea. this was a republican idea. governor romney at the beginning of this debate br...

Said do not do this. the republicans had a plan. they put a plan out. they put a bipartisan plan, it was swept aside. i think something this big, this important, has to be done in a bipartisan baitionz. we have to have a president who can reach across the aisle and fashion important legislation with the input of both parties. >> governor romney says this has to be done in a bipartisan basis. this is a bipartisan idea. this was a republican idea. governor romney at the beginning of this debate br...

Concerned that somethings going to happen thats going to change their lives for the worse. and the answer is neither the president nor i are proposing any changes for any current retirees or near retirees, either to social security or medicare. so if youre 60 or around 60 or older, you dont need to listen any further. but for younger people, we need to talk about what changes are going to be occurring. oh, i just thought about one. and that is i was wrong when i said the president isnt proposing...

Out how to make the cost of health care more effective. there are ways of doing it. at cleveland clinic, one of the best health care systems in the world, they actually provide great care, cheaper than average. and the reason they do is because they do some smart things. if a patient is coming in, lets get the doctors together at once, do one test instead of having the patient run around with ten tests. lets make sure that were proving preventative care so were catching the onset of something li...

With ten tests. lets make sure that were proving preventative care so were catching the onset of something like diabetes. lets pay providers on the basis of performance, as opposed to on the basis of how many procedures theyve engaged in. so what this board does is identify best practices and says lets use the purchasing power of medicare and medicaid to help to institutionalize all these good things that we do. and the fact of the matter is that when obama care is fully implemented, were going ...

Which is put people in a position where theyre going to lose the insurance they had and they wanted. right now the cbo says up to 20 million people will lose their insurance as obama care goes into effect next year. and likewise a study of mak kinsy and company. for those reasons, for the tax, for medicare, for this board and for people losing their insurance, this is why the american people dont want obama care. its why republicans said do not do this, and the republicans had the plan. they put...

Billion from the program. he says by not overpaying hospitals and providers. actually, by going to them and saying, were going to reduce the rates youre getting across the board, everybodys going to get a lower rate. thats cutting the rates. some 15% of hospitals and nursing homes say they wont take anymore medicare patients under that scenario. we also have 50% of doctors who say they wont take more medicare patients. this, we have 4 million people on medicare advantage that will lose medicare ...

At obama care, the congressional budget office has said it will cost $2,500 a year more than traditional insurance. so its adding for cost. when the president ran for office he said that by this year he would have brought down the cost of insurance for each family by $2,500 dollars a family. second reason, it cut $716 billion from medicare to pay for it. i want to put that money back in medicare for our seniors. number three, it puts in place an unelected board thats going to tell people ultimat...