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Away. it will be phased in. it will probably include an exemption for charitable contributions. the harder question is what republicans get on the spending side of that deal. but even that doesn't seem to be such a mystery these days. there will be a lot of nips and tucks to medicare in particular. a lot of cost sharing. there will be a unified deductible and increases in provider payments. and the headline democratic concession is likely to be the medicare eligibility age rises from 65 to 67. medicare eligibility age rises. democrats do not like that idea as house minority leader nancy pelosi...

Exemption for charitable contributions. the harder question is what republicans get on the spending side of that deal. but even that doesn't seem to be such a mystery these days. a lot of nips and talks. a lot of cost sharing. there will be a unified deductible and increases in provider payments. and the concession is likely to be the medicare e eligibility age rises from 65 to 67. medicare eligibility age rises. democrats do not like that idea as nancy pelosi explained yesterday. >> first of all, show me the money. i don't even know why that is something that people think is going to produce ...

Slow down in payment to providers. >> affordable care act slowed the rate of growth in payment to certain providers. it also specified that there would be no reduction in benefits or increases in cost sharing. for medicare enrollees. >> that theoretically lowers cost. even supporters acknowledge some risk in paying less to providers when it came to the question of access. >> ratchet down the payments the doctors and hospitals too much. that you will daniel the care. >> so it true that the medicare cuts or the forced slower growth rate by the healthcare law will have zero impact on current ben ...

Pocket, up to a certain point. that's what that is all about. it's called cost sharing. and people can't afford it. it sounds good, pay more out of pocket but people can't afford to do that. bill: when we say they pass the increases on to the worker you believe that's what will happen. >> that's for sure what will happen. obamacare high school a crunch that comes in, to get your policy to grandfather in you have to increase the deductible, that's when your thing will happen, employers irgoing to start dropping policies. when you force employers to use a certain kind of policy beginning in 2014...

First three years, excuse me, you're missing a 100% cost sharing to the federal government. they will take all of the costs on themselves. that's an incredible deal. after that to 95, after that down to 90%. currently medicaid is a 57% cost share on the side of the federal government and everybody thinks it is a good enough deal to participate in. but at least for a little while we could see a gap in coverage and the difficulty here is the bill wasn't written for that. people making just above the poverty line they'll get subsidies, 100 to 133 get subsidies. the very poorest people, nothing to...