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Round trip ticket are up because of the higher jet fuel cost. but what nellis what other sectors of the travel industry go up in price? >> anything related to a discretionary spending. we are coming in the spring break time of year. people want to take vacation. college kids want to take vacation. that will diminish. hotels. any entertainment and anything you do with the extra money will get hit. cruise lines. hotels, resorts, they will take a hit. not only on the top line but the bottom line as well. just doesn't hit the consumer. it hits businesses as well because their cost of doing busines...

Expect the kind of services and support from the government that they paid for, and that sustain the middle class. look, medicare is a terrible cost problem in the long term. mcconnell said he also wants cuts in the short term, but he's -- you don't solve the medicare problem by cutting benefits. you solve it by doing the things that mitch mcconned is refusing to do in terms of for-profit health care and hospitals and the way our system is structured. he's not having a serious discussion. >> but matt, here's the things, why should the democrats let the republican off the hook? he's saying i de...

Budget office is the liar. >> cbo has it both ways. they say, calculating the debt this way and the deficit this way. >> that's the way the cbo has always done it. >> you can make the case that because your spend is a six year window and your taxes are a ten year window we're not dealing in reality. whether or not this is precedent question is a different question. >> the biggest is -- there are solutions to health care that are not in this bill, have not been part of the debate. i was a big advocate of bennett, that whole routine. there's 50 ways to go at this that's not in this legislation. ...

Subsidize the uninsured and they know it. if you require everybody to carry insurance, as a republican governor of massachusetts required, what did you find? you find that people are increased in their coverage and cost foss businesses go down. moreover, i just want to put this to my republican friend brent over here, we're within witnessing a division, a rift, because you have insurance companies say, whoa, we're seeing insurance subscription rates increase, we kind of like this. that's why the republicans are doing this now. the more time passes, the more we see that things are actually taki...

Our health care costs are way out of line with the rest of the world, and the projections get even more out of line in coming decades. >> we have a medicare cost crisis, but it's even more true that we have a national health cost crisis. we cannot solve the medicare cost problem unless we solve the problem of cost for all of our nation's health care. >> people want health care, and the average cost is rising very, very rapidly. >> this country spends more per person on health care than any other country, and by no metrics are we getting the most for our money, so there's clearly a problem of w...