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I don't want to be a bad guy. i'm not hoping that corzine goes to prison. i just want to know whether the law was broken or not, period. >> i think that's fair. >> bill: pinheads in congress want to go home for christmas, all right? i will be home for christmas you can count on me because i haven't done anything all year and why should i do anything now? so now the payroll tax is whether it's going to be extended or not and working americans need the money. >> sure. >> bill: is it going to get done next week so president obama can go to hawaii. >> despite the exact that he says he will veto le...

I don't want to be a bad guy. i'm not hoping that corzine goes to prison. i just want to know whether the law was broken or not, period. >> i think that's fair. >> bill: pinheads in congress want to go home for christmas, all right? i will be home for christmas you can count on me because i haven't done anything all year and why should i do anything now? so now the payroll tax is whether it's going to be extended or not and working americans need the money. >> sure. >> bill: is it going to get done next week so president obama can go to hawaii. >> despite the exact that he says he will veto le...

Republican plan later tonight. they would pay for the payroll tax cut extension by freezing federal workers' salaries, possibly all the way up to 2015. that's where the bulk of the money would come from as well as restructure their benefits there. there's also talk of susan collins and claire mccaskill, two senators, one republican, one democrat, they would actually ichbt dues a plan that would still have a millionaire's sur tax but put down the payroll tax holiday, keep it at 4.2% where it is right now, not the 3.1% where the president wants to go to so it wouldn't be expensive. there's a who...

Megyn: congress has just a couple of weeks left before the end of the year and doctors say the health care system is about to take a huge hit if lawmakers don't find money to fill a shaijor -- major shortfall in medicare payments to doctors f nothing is done, doctors will see a 30 percent pay cut for treating medicare patients starting the first of the year. think that might have an impact on care? our next guest says that could. joining me now, dr. marc siegl, who is part of our fox news and medical a team. all right doc, we go through this every year, right? it's called the doc fix, where th...

The room. i just can't see them. so that's something that a lot of doctors keep in mind. once they walk away from medicare, if the patient is taking medicare, they're not going to be -- >> megyn: so could that lead to a decrease in the number of doctors available to medicare patients? because you get to the point where you say it's not worth it to me, i can't see all these medicare patients for what i'm being paid now, never mind what i'm being paid, minus 30 percent. >> i'm going to tell you a statistic that's going to knock you flat. did you know that last year the center for medicare and me...