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discount there. and medicare part b. that is $30 billion to spend always. and ought to be getting into that 20% to 40% range. you are only mentioning 30 billion of that. so not all going to get cut? is. >> well, we are still going to be paying for drugs. that is a significant percentage reduction. >> it is. but what about the other hundred billion dollars. are you going to fight for those costs too? >> well, across the board, the tools that we are giving these part d drug plans will enable them to negotiate harder. we have proved formularies. what happens right now, under the existing rules is if a patient gets any of that
block public release of the visitor logs? will you reless them to the public? >> i don't anticipate any changes to that policy at this point, but if it happens we'll make sure you're aware. john? >> yes. thank you, sarah. two questions. first, during the campaign the president said repeatedly entitlements were off the table, and he would preserve social security, medicare, medicaid, medicare part b. as they were. now with the passage of the tax reform legislation, and the recent statements of how speaker paul ryan and entitlements should be considered, has the president changed his position from the campaign? >> the president hasn't changed his position at this point. again, as conversations go on if that does change we'll let you know. trey? sorry. second question. >> is it safe to say steve bannon is off the list of social invitations for the white house?
>> again, you get back to, you know, people fears -- >> oh wait. i'm sorry. and you're going to cut taxes. >> you get back to people's fears about a trump presidency. we don't know. we will know when policy begins to be worked out. that's a difference between personalities that you see in tv. president-elect trump speaking last night and the actual policies that they're going to have to put together. there's going to be a collision course. >> something has to give. i don't think, john heilemann, after what republicans went through with george w. bush where bush comes in. there's $155 billion surplus. a trillion deficit. he leaves and the's a $11 trillion national debt. they go along with medicare part b. an expansion unfunded to a medicare program already on shaky financial grounds over the next generation. i find it hard to believe
we get a certain number of people and a certain number of specific kind of person young, healthy, middle class to sign up for the health care law. >> this is the problem with this. this is a problem with this story. you go back to a couple years and you heard speaker boehner talking about horrendous rollout of a program and he is talking about prescription drugs. these don't necessarily roll out well. this is the problem with the story. this is a process sorry. this is about the process. you're missing the forest for the trees. it's not about a process. >> it's about discouraging people. >> this is what is different from medicare part b. the prescription drug benefit. the design of this system is built around getting a certain number of people to use the website and sign up. so the rollout wouldn't matter if it was -- >> are you telling me that we can't fix a website? are you telling me -- >> i'm not the one telling you that. >> the problem is not the website. yes, we have a problem trying to get people enrolled.
kind of person young, healthy, middle class to sign up for the health care law. >> this is the problem with this. this is a problem with this story. you go back to a couple years and you heard speaker boehner talking about horrendous rollout of a program and he is talking about prescription drugs. these don't necessarily rollout well. this is the problem with the story. this is a process sorry. this is about the process. you're missing the forest for the trees. it's not about a process. >> it's about discouraging people. >> this is what is different from medicare part b. the design of this system is built around getting a certain number of people to use the website and sign up. so the rollout wouldn't matter if it was -- >> are you telling me that we can't fix a web snit you are telling me -- >> i'm not the one telling you that. >> the problem is not the
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