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If you like your health care plan, you will be able to keep your health care plan, period. and i am sorry that they are finding themselves in this situation based on assurances they got from me. joining me with reaction, former obama economic adviser. he got us into this economic mess austin goolsby and jedediah byla. we see it in the polling numbers. we can look t at the rollout of the website as incompetence. now that we know in july of 2010 they knew by their own government estimates that 60 some odd percent of small businesses, 40 some odd percent of big businesses and an overwhelming number of individual health care accounts, they would lose them. they made the conscious decision to go forward with the lie. how do you back away from the law s credibility of the president when you do that? i don t think that s a proper characterization. the 5% of the market not five. that s another lie. it s less than 5%. more than five. it s not more than 5%. ....
Health care. they are getting more choices and more options. are we sure about that? that 2009 line that has come back to haunt the president. he said if you like your doctor you keep your doctor. if you like your plan you keep your plan. are you sure that these walgreen s employees are going to keep their plan? it sounds like they are going to have to cough up more money. i think we have to get more details on what the plan includes. but with that being said, i think guy can agree on this, having choice and competition seems to be the way to go here. that is what happened when president bush gave people health care accounts. guy, talk about that. ....
About, what do you do in terms of the adjustments you make to medicare? medicare and the other health care accounts in total, we save $500 billion over the next ten years. remember, as you so well know, we ll be spending more than $10 trillion over the next ten years, so these are relatively modest savings out of medicare and the other health care accounts. do you take those savings out of providers or do they come from beneficiaries also? i think we would say that they should come from providers, but ultimately, the finance committee will come back with a proposal. it s their responsibility to do that. we ve given them a number to hit, a savings number that they are responsible to secure. and on the social security piece, what are the savings that you achieve there? what we have called for is 75-year solvency. again, none of the savings from social security go to deficit reduction, it all goes to extend ....
Strength. i want to cover three points in this most contentious points. one is what you do with medicare and social security and the other, what you do on taxation. let s go through the things that democrats would worry about. what do you do in terms of adjustments to medicare? medicare and the other health care accounts in total, we saved $500 billion over 10 years. remember as you so well know, we will be spending more than $10 trillion over the next ten years. these are modest savings out of medicare and the other health care accounts. do you take the savings out of providers or do they come from beneficiaries also? we would say that they should come from providers, but ultimately the finance committee will come back with a proposal. it s their responsibility to do that. we have given them a number to ....
senator, i just want to cover three points in what will be the most contentious points in the plan. one is what you do with medicare, what you do with social security, and the other what you do on taxation. quickly, let s go through the things democrats would worry about, what do you do in terms of the adjustments you make to medicare? medicare and the other health care accounts in total, we save $500 billion over the next ten years. remember, as you so well know, we ll be spending more than $10 trillion over the next ten years, so these are relatively modest savings out of medicare and the other health care accounts. do you take those savings out of providers or do they come from beneficiaries also? i think we would say that they should come from providers, but ultimately, the finance committee will come back with a proposal. it s their responsibility to do that. ....