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Own ak tears put out a separate report. >> a non-political watchdog issued an 18 page report questioning many of suiphz used to justify $575 billion in cuts in to medicare. it could jeopardize medicare beneficiaries to mainstream medical care. in the next two decades, cuts could force into the red 25% of hospitals. and they said would have to withdraw from providing services to medicare beneficiaries. they said they talked with several prominent health economists and all of them believe the payment reductions were unsustainable. >> half the funding for it is cutting from the elderly. the way t...

Own ak tears put out a separate report. >> a non-political watchdog issued an 18 page report questioning many of suiphz used to justify $575 billion in cuts in to medicare. it could jeopardize medicare beneficiaries to mainstream medical care. in the next two decades, cuts could force into the red 25% of hospitals. and they said would have to withdraw from providing services to medicare beneficiaries. they said they talked with several prominent health economists and all of them believe the payment reductions were unsustainable. >> half the funding for it is cutting from the elderly. the way t...

Go into them. why do they say that projection is really uncertain. >> reporter: the only way the president could raise enough money on paper to pay for the new benefits is make cuts of $575 billion to medicare to offset all the new spending. but people have long expressed skepticism about that. they say improved medicare financing cannot be simultaneously used to finance other federal outlays such as the coverage expansion and to extend the from us fund. and the nonpartisan congressional budget office agreed that would be spending the money twice, saying that any savings from cuts to medicare ...

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...

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...