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Therapy. that's a tragedy. medicare pays doctors the cost of the drug plus 6%. if you have a more expensive drug, that 6% is worth more money. many of us have argued against this and wanted medicare to change that policy. i do think changing that payment policy is a critical necessary step to changing the conversation. one of the things we know, mike and joe, is a lot of patients don't understand that the average amount of time they'll get from these drugs is just weeks, it doesn't cure them. either the doctor doesn't say it, or if the doctor says it, the patient might not hear it, because the...

A vote on a clean debt ceiling increase. republicans over the weekend and they will continue to pass bills in the house. are those just bargaining positions or are they trying to do something in the absence of any real negotiating? >> in the old days, one became b -- chamber passed its version, the other chamber passed its version and you came up with a compromise. the senate says no way, we're not taking the bait. the white house says we're not taking the bait because they think they would fund almost all of the government, just not obama care. the republicans would say we win, the government...

>> announcer: welcome back to the "education nation: student town hall." here again is melissa harris-perry. >> welcome back, everyone. we turn now to a somber topic. this is the first "education nation: student town hall" since a school shooting at sandy hook elementary in newtown, connecticut, took the live of 21 students plus 6 teachers and administrators. >> we're following breaking news right now. >> the shooting at sandy hook elementary school in newtown, connecticut. >> tragedy at sandy hook elementary. an unthinkable attack on young children. >> i was in the gym and i heard a loud -- w...

Essentially what's happening is these doctors who see medicare patients, they get reimbursed for the price of a chemotherapy drug plus 6% to cover the overhead of ordering the drug and storing it. what they're saying is because of this 2% sequester cut, that all comes out of their 6% overhead. they can't change the price of the drug, so it's more like a 33% cut, and they're saying that just makes it too expensive to see some of the medicare patients they've been seeing in the past. >> boy, i don't know how these guys are having to turn away patients. it must be awful to go through that. how ma...

Electorate has changed. how many times you have heard a president elect say you see all the polls were wrong. >> juan: not tonight. >> megyn: that's the point. >> juan: not only that the polls were right but we were talking about this earlier. the methodology based on asking the moderates that brit was discussing how do you identify with republic or democrat? turns out the plus 6 for democrats was exactly on target. i will say this in addition when you look at moderates, the people made the call tonight for president obama. a lot of these issues, the economy, brit says it's not because of the ...