Beneficiary Side News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

It. >> it's about telling the truth. go ahead, sam. >> i think this was supported in your book, which is that at the time of that grand bargain, there was a lot of concern among democrats that paul ryan would come out with this budget, and it was a great issue to campaign on. they were demagoguing it. what people don't know about the sequester. the cuts, oh, my god, medicare cuts are in the sequester. there's going to be hundreds of billions of dollars worth of medicare cuts over ten years. i think the distinction here between what obama is saying and what he's willing to do privately is he wa...

Are currently in medicare, taken out by the president in the affordable care act, that are engaged in things like overpayments to private insurers, excessive reimbursement rates. when you take those out, according to that very groovy guy, the medicare actuary, you actually extend the life of the program by eight years. and this was quite clear in all of these factual rebuttals. by putting that money back in, he's actually shortening the life of the program by eight years. this is the hospital insurance trust fund. so that's completely upside down. the other piece of that, that i think is outri...

Michael, quickly on what malika said. >> on medicare. >> yeah. i agree the republicans have done okay in the short term but number one, democrats haven't been forceful enough. number one, congressman ryan kept the same $718 billion cut in medicare in the ryan budget. we should hang that around his neck. and number two, the difference of what the president wants to do. when the president cuts medicare, he's cutting it on the provider's side. most of those cuts were cuts to what the drug companies could make by supplying drugs to medicare. when the republicans make cuts to medicare, they're cutt...

That would have been the perfect answer. quickly on what malika said did. >> reporter: on medicare. >> yeah. i agree the republicans have done good in the short-term. democrats haven't been forceful enough. congressman ryan kept the same $718 billion cut in medicare in the ryan budget. we should hang that around his neck. and number two, the difference of what the president wants to do. when the president cuts medicare, he's cutting it on the provider's side. most of those cuts were cuts to what the drug companies could make by supplying drugs to medicare. when the republicans make cuts to med...