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Dollars in new taxes and money taken from medicare not to expand insolvency, but to raid it to pay for the new government program. >> now, both the congressional budget offers and the chief actuary of medicare have warned that the cuts in the program are double counted, but siphoned off to cover the new subsidies and spending the same dollars twice. democrats say it reduces the deficit by 143 billion over ten years, but republicans argue if you exclude at that double counting of medicare cuts and some other budget maneuvers, the house plan actually deepens the deficit by 660 billion. so, the t...

$660 billion instead of reducing it and the sides remain on two different planets when it comes to the cost of the reforms and their impact on american families. bret? >> bret: all right, jim, thanks. we are moments away from the first of the series of votes, in the house of representatives. big issue, health care reform legislation. as you look live at the capitol dome on the other side of a break, we could have the start of that first vote, stay with us. [ female announcer ] it's lobsterfest... when we turn lobster into irresistible creations. like new wood-grilled lobster and parmesan scamp...

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