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Saving medicare. what do you call it? >> well, everybody understands that they are destroying medicare as it is currently constituted. what they intend to do is convert medicare over a period of years into a voucher program. so what theyre going to say to a 70-year-old senior who is dealing with cancer or heart disease, here is a check for $8,000. go out, get the best private insurance policy you can, and lots of luck. now, you tell me, ed, if somebody is dealing with cancer or heart disease or ...

A 7% approval rating. you tell me how is that change? its not, and its no game changer either. the ryan rollout is probably the least popular vice presidential pick in 12 years. just go to the numbers. usa/gallup poll today, 42%, they say its fair or poor. 39% say it was an excellent or good choice. i mean, sarah palin, joe biden, john edwards, joe lieberman, and dick cheney, they all polled a heck of a lot better than that when it was first announced they were going to be on the ticket. even if...

Add multiple smartphones to your plan, so everyone in your family can enjoy unlimited talk and text. the first plan of its kind. share everything. get your student a samsung galaxy nexus for $99.99. newt gingrich. in 1995, then house speaker newt gingrich wanted to voucherize medicare. he wanted to privatize it. as the l.a. times reported it then, gingrich predicted congress would undertake a major reform of medicare. one would be a voucher program where they would chose among several competing ...

Unlike every republican in the house and senate and barack obama and the democrats, he wouldnt allow for even a dollar in cuts to medicare over the next decade. doesnt make you think he can make tough decisions on budgets. >> for the viewer out there who cares about this personally, he basically says ill see the cuts obama talked about and add to them by shrinking this into a voucher program. >> romney over the next ten years, says he will not allow any of the cuts agreed on and this his reforms...

Kind of care. it came from cutting subsidies to insurance companies that were overcharging the seniors. they also failed to mention that paul ryans own budget keeps the $700 billion cut in place, in addition to slashing benefits through a voucher program. when it comes to social security, ryan isnt giving specifics. yet ryan wanted to privatize the program along with the bush administration back in 2005. ryans plan saves the biggest budget cut in medicaid. okay? now, he wants to cut federal medi...

>> lets stick it to ryan here. >> 30% of hospital costs, 30%, go into purely administrative costs so theres a lot to cut there and thats exactly what the act will do. >> here is what id fear from ryan. not only is he changing into a voucher program, say im 75 years old, 80 years, i have to go trucking out for a health insurance policy i can buy at my age, of course, 82 or whatever, 72, and i have to go buy it and i know it doesnt cover the costs of my medicine because thats how theyre saving mon...

>> whats going on in the future of medicare. >> if youre 55 and over, if youre one of those elderly voters, you understand that. >> medicare under the ryan and romney plan is to replace a fee for service program which weve all grown up with. you go to the doctor and pay for it with a voucher program. where youve got to buy nurns the the private market. thats what they want to do, both of them. >> but that happens for people under 55. >> how is that a good deal? were talking people 55 and over. w...

Care bill, ryan kept them in the budget and every republican in the house voted for them and every republican in the senate voted for them. romney says he wouldnt allow that. he wouldnt sign that part of the budget. he simultaneous sly saying on the one hand he wants credit for being the guy that will make tough decisions on medicare. on the other hand, unlike every republican in the house and senate and barack obama and democrats, he wouldnt allow for even a dollar in cuts to medicare over the ...

The bad news is that vision is basically just a chart of numbers used to justify policies that are extremely unpopular. another says -- very not helpful down ballot. very not. and another says he just doesnt seem like he can step into the job on day one. doesnt seem like the kind of guy that can answer that call at 3:00 in the morning, joan. >> no, i dont think so, reverend al. i like the picture of them moonwalking back and forth. im going use that myself. no. i really appreciate governor stric...

Seniors in a situation there is no safety net and we will not let them fall through. mitt romney fully imbraced it. >> you said people could be excluded under the conditions. do you hold to that? >> under the ryan. he repealed the affordable care act. yes, we would return to the days they could deny people. >> the ryan plan said that senior citizens could not be excluded from medicare. >> but paul ryans plann whether the first or second it shredds the safety net for seniors and turns medicare in...