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Individual mandate in order to fund a doc fix to avoid a pay cut to physicians under medicare. perhaps it would be easier to simply pass the doc fix. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ told ya you could do it. (dad vo) i want her to be safe. so, i taught her what i could and got her a subaru. (girl) piece of cake. ♪ (announcer) love. it's what makes a subaru, a subaru.
Vote. after weeks of the republican leadership floating various ideas on how to get something out of this supposed standoff. something like approval of the keystone xl pipeline or repeal of the health care laws' so-called risk corridors or medicare doc fix or living adjustment for military retirees. after all that, they landed back at nothing. speaker boehner opting for a clean debt ceiling hike after predictable grumbling about president obama. >> he's the one driving up the debt and the question they're asking is, why should i deal with his debt limit? so the fact is we'll let the democrats ...
The next three months won't increase the nation's debt. why not cut spending elsewhere? there's a lot of waste, as you know, out there. and do it and get this done with once and for all. >> it's interesting, wolf. president bush signed an emergency unemployment compensation extensions five times with no strings attached. just last month, the congress acted in a bipartisan fashion to extend the so-called doc fix. that's the payment to medicare doctors for three months, no strings attached. what this bipartisan bill in the senate from senator heller and senator reid does is just that. let's pass...
Find shuolutions that work for everybody. at the same time, again, there's been a long and proud bipartisan history, including, again, five times under president bush, 14 out of the last 17 times, it's been extended. there have been no strings attached. and that's why, you know, the example of the medicare doc fix, where there was a three-month temporary extension while they work out a long-term fix, is -- seems like the right way to go. >> mr. secretary, i raise the question, because senator chuck schumer just said he wants a clean bill, as you do, as well. but if that's impossible to get thr...
Worry about 2014. we'll bring that sucker up for a vote in the house. he ain't going to say that. you see, they believe, the republicans, that all of these unemployed people in america, they're democrats. and they also believe that they're not going to vote for the republicans anyway. so that's part of the equation. oh, we did get the doc fix in this bill. how many democratic doctors do you know? this is about the vote. most doctors in this country vote republican. most of them don't like government. do i have anything to back that up? no, that's just a gut feeling. i'm willing to say that, be...