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Pretty amped up republican party, we could get to the 35, 40 seats that get us to the majority. >> greta: tonight the vote on reconciliation passed. now what? >> the next move on the democrats is to pass the doctor fix. everyone thinks health care is over. it is not over. two things are coming down the pike. number one, the doc fix, 208 billion dollars that they've got to find, i guess they don't have to find, because they are not planning on paying for. they are planning on passing this bill, adding deficit. if you consider that as part of the overall plan. then the plan the democrats said wa...

Pretty amped up republican party, we could get to the 35, 40 seats that get us to the majority. >> greta: tonight the vote on reconciliation passed. now what? >> the next move on the democrats is to pass the doctor fix. everyone thinks health care is over. it is not over. two things are coming down the pike. number one, the doc fix, 208 billion dollars that they've got to find, i guess they don't have to find, because they are not planning on paying for. they are planning on passing this bill, adding deficit. if you consider that as part of the overall plan. then the plan the democrats said wa...

Reduce the deficit by $143 billion. however, that doesn't include what might come and what's been promised with more than a wink and a nod to doctors, which is to up their medicare payments, their reimbursements which would cost $208 billion, which then means it actually would be -- would add to the deficit. is that -- is my math correct there? >> well, if that were to be true. but here's the thing, there's no question about the fact that we need to take care of the docs and emphasize primary care. but also what never gets discussed, candy, is some that reuters came out earlier this year. $700...

"forbes" magazine and there's a lot of talk, that it is look a bernie madoff kind of a bill. this bill reads to me more like an enron-style, bernie madoff, worldcom, dot-com bubble rolled into one, there are so many gimmicks and you outlined one and that is the doc fix, the $208 billion, in exposed costs for paying medicare physicians and that is being put aside in a stand-alone bill and that would have wiped out the exposed cost savings of $138 billion, over ten years, and... >> you know what, you know, what seems bizarre about that is they talk about the cost of health care, and when you men...