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Id call on the president to say, lets get a voucher program and start it and say nobody will be turned away. >> i only have about 30 seconds or so. your pushback on one of the presidents appointees, david barrett. he was appointed to the first circuit court as a judge. what was your pushback with that gentleman? >> i think its really important to have trials. to be accused is one thing, but a conviction is different than a trial. i have no sympathy for american traitors or people who betray thei...

Affordable care act, if they want to end medicare as we know it and convert it into a voucher program, if they want to slash medicaid and leave millions and millions of people out on the street without any health insurance, its fair to say these guys are not great fans of public health. i think thats a fair statement. i would argue that in many ways, and according to many studies, despite its problems, v.a. today provides good quality health care in a cost-effective way. >> i would say to you, s...

People want to repeal the affordable care act, if they want to end medicare as we know it and convert it into a voucher program, if they want to slash medicaid and leave millions and millions of people out on the street without any health insurance, its fair to say these guys are not great fans of public health. i think thats a fair statement. i would argue that in many ways, and according to many studies, despite its problems, v.a. today provides good quality health care in a cost-effective way...

Budget, i think we probably need more resources and i have advocated for that in the last several years. second point, though, i think it is fair to say that management of v.a. has not been as strong as it should be. i think there are areas where the v.a. should have been much quicker to pick up on the problems and allocate resources. >> let me interject there for a second, because you are already seeing on the right in the conservative media, basically, a whole -- dozens of pieces today, this s...

Most popular parts of the health care law. doesnt this show the fight is all over, really? >> look. we know what republicans in their hearts believe about health care. when bush was president for eight years, tell me what did he do when we had over 40 million people who had no health insurance? the answer is nothing. what are over 20 republican governors in this country doing right now when they have the opportunity for zero state funds to provide medicate for all of their people? what theyre do...

219 republicans drew their support behind a plan that would cripple the poor. 69% of all the budget cuts target programs for low income americans. it fundamentally transforms the medicare program into a voucher program, repeals the affordable care act, and takes the ax to food stamps. why? to pay for massive tax break for the rich. its a budget that republicans should be ashamed of. its not worthy of their party, much less this country. joining me now, senator bernie sanders of vermont. thanks f...

Doesnt guarantee health care to all of its people as a right. second of all, the republicans have opposed the affordable care act from day one. it is their nightmare that it succeeds. thirdly, these are the same guys that want to end medicare as we know it, convert it into a voucher program, who want to make massive cuts in medicaid, who had eight years under bush, knew something, eve an little thing about health care, they did nothing. so these guys have nothing at all to say. and their nightma...

It just represents them consistently being out of touch. >> and, you know, talking about out of touch, krystal, the ryan budget also turns medicare into a voucher program, like -- its voucher, like for senior citizens. 69% support the program as it is. isnt the move just as much bad politics as it is policy, and wont the democrats capitalize on this? >> i think they absolutely will. >> oh, yes. >> and the medicare changes we know are deeply unpopular, the voucherizing of medicare, deeply unpopul...

205-page report arguing that the war of poverty has failed. >> everybody cares that we get people out of poverty. but unfortunately, a lot of these strategies have failed miserably. by not getting people on a path to getting out of poverty, but making it easier to live and stay with poverty, were perpetuating poverty. >> and today, paul ryan had a chance to tell us exactly how he would make life better for the poor in america. house budget committee chairman released 2015 budget, cutting $5.1 tr...

Budget revives his plan to transfer medicare into a voucher program for americans who are 55 or younger. while ryans budget inclusds large cuts to programs that help the poor, it also conspicuously lacks new and specific proposals to revamp anti-poverty programs that already exist. instead it offers bullet points including a call to expand welfares work requirements. ryan claims he will offer new ideas on fighting poverty at some point later this year. for now, though, well just have to make do ...