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Medicare through cutting the providers, what the providers are making, drug companies and the hospitals and other providers. >> what are nonessential services? thats what theyre called. >> the drug companies are making a mountain of money and, also, hospitals are very inefficient. >> 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 c...

At his side and weve seen that this weekend. now if that continues through the campaign, its going to be an important asset for romney. but the question is, how aggressively will they make this fight over medicare in particular, because i think thats where the vulnerability is going to be. >> mark halperin. >> go ahead, david. >> i want to add on to that. i think its important, how they are going to argue this case. you know, i was initially struck that the chairman of the party who was on "meet...

By $5.3 trillion over ten years, but would not balance the budget until 2040, cuts medicaid, food stamps spending and transportation infrastructure, also reduces the tax rate on the wealthy from 35% to 25% and changes the number of tax brackets from six to two, but the place where the democrats are likely to hit ryan the hardest is on its medicare provisions. under the budget plan it would eventually become what the democrats call a voucher program. >> you guys have fun. >> do you think this is ...

In some of these really important states that have older populations like pennsylvania and florida. >>? >> ive said on this show and said it for six months you do one thing at a time. you talk about math, you dont turn something into a voucher program. you talk about math. well see what mitt romney adopts from paul ryan and how he takes it. but paul ryan wants to slow down the rate of growth for medicare, medicaid, social security. guess what? we have to do it. now, do you do that while turning ...

People who rely on these benefits are going to get cut the first. theyre going to be hurt the worst under a debt crisis. were saying, if we fix this now, we can keep the current promise to current seniors and people ten years away from retirement. >> so what hes now saying on the campaign trail with mitt romney is that president obama will scare seniors about what they want to do about medicare, here is now a duo finally saying, lets solve the problem before change is forced upon the people who ...

When you look at ryans budget and his vision, ryans policies and his votes, it reinforces every piece of that narrative. so i dont see how he helps romney or hurts democrats in terms of the appeal to swing voters. >> hogan, the obama campaign has been referring to the ryan budget as the ryan/romney budget for months now. romney trying to put some light between him and the ryan budget. highlights for everybody out there, the ryan plan would change medicare. it would essentially be a voucher progr...

The reasonn we have 12 yearrs inted of nine it add insolvencey to the medicare program. we need to shore up medicare so that my genneration and paul ryans generation have that safety net in place and that mitt romney fully embraced by choosing paul ryan as running mate is shredding that safety net and tellingors you dont have a guarantee and well give you a voucher and make you pay $6300 more in premiums in order to pay for the health care and leaf you with a gap between what the vouchers and th...

And democrats bombarded the airwaves calling ryan radical, extreme, a right-winged idea -- ideologue. the obama campaign planned to make the ryan budget with its tax cuts for the rich and changes to medicare a center of the campaign. the president already has. >> it is a trojan horse, disguised as deficit reduction plans, it is really an attempt to impose a radical vision on our country. >> while the ryan pick brought excitement and bigger crowds. democrats say it makes it harder for republicans...

He has extreme views. he doesnt balance budgets. hes like all the republicans since reagan and the two bushes, hes going to run up enormous defici deficits. the deficit will get worse under paul ryans plan. thats a fact. the romney people are a referendum on obama and the right-wing economic policies. that is a huge loser. i have some great polling data if you have a second. 51%. theres five or six districts just polled and between 51% and 59% in the swing districts absolutely do not favor a vou...

>> go to corporate tax cuts. they dont? youre not going to cut corporate taxes? >> medicare will be covered by guaranteeing to everybody 55 and over that they can have medicare exactly as it is today. >> yeah, yeah. >> no change. >> 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...