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Morning. it was nice. thank you. when republicans talk about medicare, their policy as far as i can tell is to kill medicare. what they say is they want to save it or strengthen it. now we have the president saying he, too, wants to strengthen medicare. does that give you the willies at all? no, we always said consistently from day one, we will negotiate to improve, strengthen mid care. we will not negotiate to end medicare. it is not what the republicans say, it is what they have done. paul ryan ends the guaranteed medicare benefit, turns medicare into a coupon program. democrats united, democrats in the house and the senate and the white house that we are open to ideas for efficiency in medicare to extend its solvency, but we will not negotiate what republicans have been trying to do 20 years now, and that is to end medicare. in terms of that as a potent ....
It was nice. thank you. when republicans talk about medicare, their policy as far as i can tell is to kill medicare. what they say is they want to save it or strengthen it. now we have the president saying he, too, wants to strengthen medicare. does that give you the willies at all? no, we always said consistently from day one, we will negotiate to improve, strengthen mid care. we will not negotiate to end medicare. it is not what the republicans say, it is what they have done. paul ryan ends the guaranteed medicare benefit, turns medicare into a coupon program. democrats united, democrats in the house and the senate and the white house that we are open to ideas for efficiency in medicare to extend its solvency, but we will not negotiate what republicans have been trying to do 20 years now, and that is to end medicare. in terms of that as a potent political issue, one of the reasons i wanted to talk to you ....
President clinton right, no matter what you think of paul ryan, you have to deal with this thing and get this job done before next year? i don t think there s any agreement with that. there are things we need to do and address those issues on a bipartisan basis. how high do you think the tax rate ought to be there. it has been met with two words, end medicare. i have to interrupt you. they are not saying end medicare. if you have a problem with paul ryan s system, that s fine. you kype saying med compare. republicans demagogued medicare on medicare advantage. i have to jump in, you ve said it ten times in five minutes. you know- very impressive. that s impressive. but you know that s not true. but it is true. read the ryan i know you read it, it ends the guaranteed medicare benefit. paul ryan is taking a different approach, an approach a starting point for the house republicans. but they are not talking about telling my mom, who is 79 years old, you get no more medica ....
Same benefits. i m not going to have at 48, the same benefits my parents have. why should you, joe scarborough, or me, my first job, i was a bus boy at jones beach. god bless you. i ve been paying into medicare every paycheck since then. now, i m being told you re going to lose that guaranteed medicare benefit. you just said you will get reduced benefits. i think there are better options. the options are, why do if you re making over a million dollar why do you continue to get $100,000 tax cut but if you re 65 when this kicks in you get a reduced medicare benefit? why aren t we exploring better options? this has to do with math again. it is simply unsustainable. i would love i would love to not only give everybody the same thing the greatest generation is getting, i d be glad to pass out dandelions and make sure the sun came out every morning. ....
It says we will terminate the guaranteed medicare benefit, instead turn it into a voucher program. if you re a senior citizen get sick right now, go to your doctor, the federal government will reimburse the doctor. you take your voucher coupon and the insurance company decides what they will pay and won t pay and you get stuck with the big $6400 bill, all to fund tax cuts for big oil companies. is that what he did, woke up and said to his wife come on. i like you but we do not allow talking points on this show. that s a talking point and you know it. joe, there s an orthodoxcy. i m talking about oil companies. he s not doing this to fund tax cuts for big oil companies. you and i both know, everybody knows, med compare is unsustainable. right. maybe paul ryan s program he says is not a voucher program is not the way to go but we do have to slow down the rate of growth in medicare, it doesn t survive, ....