Pakistan has the most deadly combination of nuclear material and terrorists in the world. we haven t talked enough about the regional solution that s going to be put in place once the troops leave. i ve broken with him in several key areas. how do you feel about the health care law. i support i m on record to say i supported the health care bill. there s a big difference between rand paul and me in this issue as well. i want to approve it. he says he wants to appeal it. he s coming out with a deductible. we need a system of health care in this country. really couldn t believe that statement. come out and said we don t need federal funding for breast cancer research. an issue that got our lady so mad that she had a conference call on the issue. we should allow for medicare bulk purchasing to negotiate for prescription prices. that saves $200 billion. that s an improvement we can make right away. what are specific proposals you have for creating job which is is issue number one right now? it s absolutely issue number one, wolf. we lost 100,000 manufacturing
Administration has not done a great job, i would not have voted for the bailouts, there were not aenough accountability in them and people got bonuses after getting bailouts and health care, look, we have 654,000 kentuckians for the first time getting health care, i have a friend who had a kidney transplant and tells he how hard it is to get coverage with a preexisting condition and i want it to be i want medicare to engage in the bulk purchasing and i m in the for the $2,000 deductible and taking the health care system back to a pre-world war ii system which rand paul is on the record as having said, and, i think it is a stark difference. chris: you take me in the direction of what i want to feel free to talk to each other, if you want to, dr. paul, you say you would have voted against the stimulus, kentucky received $2.9 billion, almost $3 billion in stimulus funds and according
Administration has not done a great job, i would not have voted for the bailouts, there were not aenough accountability in them and people got bonuses after getting bailouts and health care, look, we have 654,000 kentuckians for the first time getting health care, i have a friend who had a kidney transplant and tells he how hard it is to get coverage with a preexisting condition and i want it to be i want medicare to engage in the bulk purchasing and i m in the for the $2,000 deductible and taking the health care system back to a pre-world war ii system which rand paul is on the record as having said, and, i think it is a stark difference. chris: you take me in the direction of what i want to feel free to talk to each other, if you want to, dr. paul, you say you would have voted against the stimulus, kentucky received $2.9 billion, almost $3 billion
I think we need medicare bulk purchasing. it was wrong during the healthcare debate to take pharma out of it. let medicare negotiate for lower prices. that would save $200 billion. chris: they tried to do it and the drug companies stiffed them. we need medicare fraud units in each and every state. there h is a lot of fraud. $100 billion in fraud. you don t need to be handling out of washington. i have taken on medicaid fraud. chris: are you willing to reduce the benefit. let me say one thing. $130 billion that can be done. the pay as you go system and a bipartisan debt commission to come back with recommendations. chris: dr. paul anything specific you are willing to say i will change entitlements this way. you don t do anything to people receiving social security and medicare. we have the baby boom generation getting ready to retire and we will double the
Premiums are going up. according to studies millions of americans won t be able to keep their coverage and spending, total national spending according to studies is projected to go up $300 billion the next decade. that is fixing the problem? not necessarily. i think the bill needs to be improved upon. that is a key difference between myself and rand. i talked about 200 billion north dakota savings from medicare bulk purchasing. find ways to control costs. preexisting conditions. people shouldn t be denied because they have a preexisting condition 19,000 kentucky kids staying on insurance as a result of changes to the law. 45,000 small businesses getting assistance with premiums. those are good things. he wants to repeal all of that. and i tell you what, i have got a friend and she is a retired bank teller she is on a fixed income. she can t afford a $2,000 deductible in medicare. that is not an option for her