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Through june 2nd. cobra has been extended until may 31st. this is a subsidy to help people pay the premiums, when you lose the job and need to get health insurance benefits. that's what cobra is. that was extended until may 31st. there's a measure in here called the dock fix. allows doctors to be paid at the prior levels from medicare. they were going to see a 20% decline. that fixes all of this. pushing the ball forward. it still pushes the ball forward so there will be another discussion beginning of the summer about what we'll do about job ben fts. are we going to continue to extend them. y...

For it. >> that's exactly right. you know, this is a huge problem. and the fed chairman talked about arithmetic and the fact that it doesn't work here. let me give you a reason why. we're taxing about 18.5% of the economy right now -- >> no, we're not. >> and we are, and then we're spending 25% of the economy. now, your family budget, tell me, does that work or doesn't it work? michael's exactly right that the budgets are unusually large this year. the budget deficit is. but it's not much different going into the future. we have social security and medicare catching up with us, and the savings...

As a result nernl? could a year from now, douse that any of the challenges that the republican are using, whether it is state by state or through the federal courts, is it vulnerable? >> i was a brand new hill aide in 1989 when that was reappealed. it was catastrophic health insurance, mostly for elderly. it was the elderly who wanted it repeal because it taxed them for a benefit that wept to the elderly and of course they didn't like that. i really don't see that happening at all. i think the point that ryan makes about this so-called dock fix, where doctors are going to be underreimbursed un...

Fiscal context, right? so sja gupta has earlier on talked about the dock fix. this is a separate issue not in the bill but it is a big issue that shape how much we'll spend over health care over time. similarly, we've put a lot of revenue issues if you are down the line and later in this bill that may or may not happen. that will happen after the president leaves office. that's the tricky question. a lot of the pain in this is coming later. the spinach is coming later. the good stuff, that's coming sooner. whether or not this bill is really going to reduce the deficit is an open question. >> i...

Medicare dock fix. they are keeping up the momentum going into 2016. this is bob cusack. you are in washington d.c. we are talking about the flurry of bills and a new eran of compromise. does it feel different? is there a different vibe on capitol hill? >> there is a different vibe jenna. if you look at the last congress it was worst ever. and now the republicans own the whole thing and mitch mcconnell has to preserve the fragile majority and they are putting up points on the board. john boehner said put points on the board. they are not tax reform or immigration reform. but legislation and th...