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Medicare can make it harder for seniors to find a doctor too, jon. jon: an interesting take on all of this. jim angle, thanks. jenna: fox business alert we'll take a look at what your money is doing today. the dow kind of a quiet day, it's up about 20 points. i want to mention to you that oil is trending higher right around $106 a barrel. we just were showing you video of some housing. the new home sales, plunging last month to a record low, to nearly 17%. sales of brand-new homes a smaller segment of the market because most people buy homes that have already been lived in. facilities numbers ...

Voters with freebies and a barrage of ads starring andy griffith the law is still an unknown quantity, the goodies were simply not good enough. >> reporter: that's right, jon if you remember a year ago democratic strategists were touting the fact that the major components of this law won't be going into effect until 2013, or 2014. they were sort of laughing saying, great we are going to put the good things up front. 26 years old get to stay on their parents insurance. extra medicare money for senior citizens. those things come first. the tough stuff, the insurance mandate, new fees, taxes and ...

Parliamentarian went the way of the democrats. some say the republicans ought to just pack it in, accept the status quo and take this law as a done deal. that's not what you intend? >> well, the law is a done deal, but the bill that we're working on is not. we've got a responsibility to the american people to make sure, a, democrats don't abuse the senate rules and, b, if there's anything we can do to avoid the extra taxes, extra medicare cuts, overcharging of student loans that's in this bill, we ought to do it. jon: have they abused the senate rules? >> well, we're going to find out when we ...

Home when you hear about the mitt romney tax rate, 14 percent or 15 percent, he has paid the top income tax rate when this was income. he takes this money, puts it back in the pool, and that money, then, earns interest, or is invested and has a great return and he pays, then, another tax on top of that money that has had the return. but that gets lost in the argument. so, the real return, the real tax is were higher. let's say we were to raise the so-called capital gains rate, which now long term, the top rate, long term, at 15 percent, is 20 percent plus or tied to income for shorter term. th...

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