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After the house, the bill, obviously, went nowhere. so this is such a dead issue but this is what the republicans want to do. obama care repeal bills are now being sponsored by people like congresswoman michele bachmann and congressman steve king. ted cruz, new on the scene, said it will not pass the senate. this hasn't stopped congressman ryan from engaging in this useless posturing. and there's more. ryan's budget would balance the budget by 2023 instead of by 2040. it would cut food assistance from the poor. cut $770 billion in medicaid and create medicare vouchers and cut $716 billion from...

Hospitals don't take the program. reform medicaid by giving states the ability to customize the medicaid program to meet the unique needs of their medicaid populations. we think it will make the programs better. >> chris: you say by turning medicaid into a block grant and giving it to the states you can cut $770 billion out of the program over the next ten years and it will have no impact on legitimate recipients? >> these are increases that have not come yet. by repealing obama care and medicaid expansions which haven't occurred yet we are basically preventing an explosion of a program that i...

Year which is the path we are on which takes us away from ever balancing the budget which produces a debt crisis. that is the problem. the president has us on a path toward a debt crisis that hurts everybody. that brings us to a recession. gives us a european kind of experience we want to avoid. we want people going back to work. higher wages. more jobs. a growing economy. we get that by balancing the budget. >> chris: there are two sides to the argument. the president would say the spending cuts and sequester and cuts that you going to propose in the short-term could actually hurt this kind o...

Period, end of story. >> apparently aiming to anger just about everybody and make no sense whatsoever, ryan's budget also has a $770 billion cut to medicaid over the next ten years. along with the medicaid voucher program the democrats ran against and defeated in 2012. ryan admits his budget takes advantage of higher taxes that the president won as part of the debt ceiling deal and keeps the savings from the health care reform that it wants to overturn. confused? we are. so as long as ryan is picking and choosing winners and losers to get his budget down to a lean, mean machine, how about thos...

Folks and they look at me like, i have never hards of it. >> shannon: you mentioned bipartisanship and clarity. we hope you will hash this out. >> eric: >> reporter: by turning medicaid to a bloc grant that you can cut $770 billion out of that program in 10 years and have no impact on legitimate recipients? >> these are increases that have not come yet. so by repealing kare-11 and the medicaid expansions which haven't occurred yet, we are preventing an sploangz of a program that is already failing. >> shannon: that was former republican vice-presidential candidate and chair of the budget commi...