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Obama care will increase healthcare costs by hundreds of billions of dollars instead. according to the centers for medicare and medicaid services from 2012 to 2022 healthcare spending is projected to grow 5.8 percent every year for a total of more than $620 billion due to an improving economy broader coverage under the affordable care act and an aging population. meanwhile the congressional budget office projects from 2013 to 2028 spending on government programs from 4.6 percent gdp to 8 percent. total national healthcare spending will rise from 16 percent to 22 percent. with that increase mor...

2010, top 10 paid paid about 70% of all taxes. in 2010, the top 25% paid about 87% of all taxes. and president obama says the so-called rich are still not paying their fair share and wants to raise taxes after they raised them 620 billion, another 600 plus billion, is there any way he's going to get that through with the republican lawmakers in the senate or the house? >> no, and plenty of democrats that wouldn't want to do it. the problem for the president now is one of kind. he needs a deal to allow him for borrowing authority and he needs it by, let's say, july, the first of july or thereab...

Argument among republican colleagues, we would have been open to that had he not raised tax rates on the upper income, otherwise, you would have been open to this. you're not open now because he did that. >> he got a tax increase on the rich. $620 billion as a result of the fiscal cliff. he's gotten over $1.7 trillion in new tax revenue to work with. his budget calls for another $1 trillion on top of that. at some point you pile big burdens on the economy and it's impossible to recover and generate the economic growth necessary to get people back to work and make fiscal imbalances look smaller...

Least as i understand the senate budget? >> somebody's going to pay higher taxes because it it doesn't matter how you define that. when you're talking about whether closing loopholes or talking about rates and taxes to pay more taxes, we believe that-- >>, but the loopholes, someone got a bargain because someone got a lobbyist to persuade you guys to give that person a loophole? >> the point is you shouldn't have to raise taxes until you deal with spending and the president's got tax increases, 620 billion dollars in the fiscal cliff, 1 trillion dollars in new taxes with obamacare and now he w...

Hurts everybody. >>-- we'll be talking about revenues, talking about expenses, entitlements, we have to do that. the problem right now is that we don't see from the president any structural changes in this unsustainable course on the entitlement. >> we see the request for more and more taxes at a time we just raised taxes 620 billion dollars. we believe that obamacare is it a program that will not work. we believe obamacare will actually leave the hospitals, doctors, health care providers, turning people away. >> and first tonight, a new record, but it's not a good one. more than 47 million am...