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Medicare, protect those who are 55 and over. this isn't about them. we'll keep that pledge to them. look, we all have parents, mine have passed now but i saw how important medicare was for them in the end years of their life, senior years of their life. i am fully committed to making sure seniors are taken care of. but if you do nothing, the actuaries tell us medicare goes broke so we did something. we said here's a way to deal with medicare. looks a lot like medicare part d, by the way, for the next generation of seniors. obama care's the one that raided $716 billion out of medicare and put i...

Weeds. we are tossing out phrases like, the vice-president said the republicans want to gut medicare. if you take a look at the republican house budget plan, which is the cheapskate of all budget plans out there, we are spending $503 billion today tcalls for spending $855 billion 10 years from now, 3% less than president obam a. so if that is gutting medicare, you know, i don't get. it the language on the in theic party is scare. don't engage on the substance. the president himself refuses to engage. you may not know this -- your viewers may not know this. there is a statutory responsibility f...

Of hospitals by the end of the decade. running in the red. because reimbursement rates are so low to extent they have to withdraw from the medicare programs. they won't be able to take medicare patients because it will drive them further in the red. boy 2030, it's 25% of hospitals nationwide. similarly for nursing home and home healthcare agencies. so this is completely false. the chief about ware indicated this in repeated congressional testimony. 25% of medicare beneficiaries are in medicare advantage. that means they get entitlement through a private insurance plan today. the bam become car...

In the reduced rate of growth, there are more benefits. you close the doughnut poll. all sort of benefit for american seniors including a guaranteed that you still get services here, medical attention you have under the current system. that does not exist in the ryan plan. >> medicare actuaries say if you implement the cut, it will reduce payment that treat the eldly payments that one-sixth will go flush and not be available. doctors who are reluctant to actually because of how low the payments are. will say no all together. no services at all. it's a huge real cut. it will affect the elderly....

i'm suzanne malveaux and this hour in "cnn newsroom," we are focusing on paul ryan, mitt romney's choice for vice president. i want to get right to it. paul ryan campaigns today as the number two man on the republican ticket and the man with the plan to remake medicare and medicaid and other programs. critics say it is a plan that will make things worse for the poor and the middle-class. we will also tell you about ryan's personal story and his personal experience. we will examine key parts of the budget plan and the proposed changes to medicare and medicaid. president obama comes ou...