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Two German newspaper reports cast doubt on the effectiveness of the Oxford vaccine among older age groups.

Systemwide. >> the cleveland clinic model? >> i wouldn't put that as my number one model. i think there are lots of other smaller models working amazingly well. >> give me an example americans can look at. what model works best? if you could scale it from the federal government, which model? >> there is a group out in california called care more. it runs about 30 centers. and it works with medicare advantage. so it's got over 65s. it does what i like to call concierge medicine for the chronically ill. 10% of the public consumes about two-thirds of the dollars, and they focus all their attentio...

1988, a good baseline, not going to remember the numbers exactly, the democrats dominated among over 65s. in the past congressional election, it's a smaller electorate, but the republicans dominateded in people over 65. that has been in the 1980s, the republicans were dominant among people under 30 and the democrats are now dominant. >> this is fascinating. the republicans have their base and idealogy in two completely different bases. their base wants the elderly and idealogy says we have to cut them. >> that is why you know the two worst things about the president's health care program, it i...

1988, a good baseline, i'm not going to remember all of these numbers, but the democrats dominated among the over 65s, the past congressional election is a smaller electorate. the republicans dominated in the over 65s. in the 1980s. the republicans were dominate in people under 30. >> that's fascinating. the republicans have their base in two completely different place. their ideology is in young people and old. >> the two worst things about the president's health care package is number one that it increases the deficit and number two that it restricts medicare and you'll hear people on the fl...

Carolina earlier this week, what struck me was the democratic elation that ryan was on the ticket, and the feeling among the politicians i talked to was that they can make, the democrats can now make the ryan plan a central issue in the campaign, particularly the premium support or voucherization of medicare, which will make many senior citizens very uncomfortable, because even though the ryan and romney say we don't really -- it doesn't start for people except for people under 55, the fact they're going to pull people out of medicare will have an effect on people who are in medicare, and so t...