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Ideas that go after the waste and abuse in our system, especially in programs like medicare. but we do this while protecting medicare benefits and extending the financial stability of the program by nearly a decade. martha: that was the argument you heard over an over really during the health care debate but now republicans are saying hold on a minute, there's a new report from inside the obama administration that tells a tale of rising costs, so they want to know where those numbers were during this debate. a man named richard foster who also did some calculating during the bush administratio...

Medicare actuary says this, among other things -- increase of $311 billion in the next ten years, 15% of all providers could become unprofitable. some hospitals may go under. medicare cuts could drive 15% of hospitals in the red. and there are also other cuts that are questioned in the report. what about it, steve? >> it's fascinating. think of since the five, six weeks since healthcare passed we have seen a steady stream of front page news stories that affirm the conservative critics of the bill before it became law. so you have seen stories about insurance premiums going up and you have seen...

Paying more. >> we are going to spend more, not less, as nation on healthcare. reform was supposed to be about getting this monster under control and it's going the wrong direction. >> reporter: the actuaries found under the new law, national health spending would increase by $311 billion over the next ten years, $89 billion more than previously thought. though that is a small percentage of total spending which would be $35 trillion. the report also found 18 million people, more than half of 34 million who would gain health insurance, would be forced into medicaid, healthcare for the poor. but...

The toughest immigration rules in the country are now laws in arizona. the governor there signing a controversial new bill targeting illegal immigration, but it's already challenged on a couple of fronts. two advocacy groups say they'll go to court over it and president obama is telling the justice department he wants to know if it's constitutional. the law makes it a state crime to be in the country illegally and permits police officers to ask about a person's immigration status if there's reason to think they're here illegally. and the coast guard looking for 11 missing after the oil rig exp...

Oldest citizens. >> whether you call it a death panel or not, when you're 90 years old and go to a hospital and the bed is taken up by someone else or the service the doctor wants to order isn't available, you're going to have a problem. also physicians are going to want to run away from patients where they can't get the tests they need. it's already hard enough, medicare pays less than other insurances. if they cut reimbursements, and another thing, specialists are not paid enough by medicare, specialist rates have been going down, surgery is going down, even primary care, if it stays the sam...