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>> i should just claim i did not think of that and invent that on my own, and i was late to the party. yeah, to your point, the reality we're talking federal spending going up 15 or 20 billion this year instead of 60 or 70 billion dollars this year, and that's the deal. and really, what's driving all of it, when you get down to it, this whole discussion is about the biggest part of the bugetary pie and entitlement programs like the he president's new health insurance entitlement. medicare and social security, that's stranging tuniversal dollars and what's funny and humorous about the moment, t...

Retirement age and the aarp are coming out and saying you're robbing seniors and denying their rights. you can't do that. >> and seniors vote and politicians listen to seniors and their representatives, and even if the information being put out is bad information. you know, even if they wouldn't be affected, actual seniors wouldn't be affected if seniors were much younger and quickly, i've got to go. >> here is the irony, they're not getting the care they were promised anyway, when they signed up for medicare, they said take it out of my payroll check and looking forward to something we don't ...

Science and it's dramatic. it shows this have been 8 it,000 generations of humans on the planet. just the last four generations have lived a lot longer. back in 1900 people lived about 40 years, now, we live around 80 years. why? vaccines, clean water, clean food, antibiotics, more public health, more perception, and vaccines by the way, public health and sewage removal number one on the list. diarrhea is the biggest killer. >> megyn: let's get down to it. >> so this is the issue and it's actually great news, but the question is, what are we going to do and how are we going to pay for it and i...

Period. i'm prepared to say that longevity, these increases in life expectancy are going to force the reform of social security and medicaid-- medicare i should say. i'll give you one number. in 1935, social, 67. and fast forward 2010, 78.7 years an increase of 17 years in three generations. >> megyn: wow. >> we've not changed the funding for social security, we still raise money in the same way and yet we're living 17 years longer and by the year 2050, life expectancy is 86. >> megyn: they're talking a study we could see 85, 90 or 100. and these are like expected averages of 85 to 100 years o...

Won't kick in until you get to -- i think it's 2021, so, people that are under 55, 54 years old, are going to see a change and it will be similar to medicare advantage program. >> but you said they have on option, they don't have an option of keeping medicare as it is they don't have that option under the ryan plan. >> they have an option of expanding the coverage that they have. talk to people that are in the medicare advantage program it works. >> no. no. >> they are happy with it. they like having the opportunity to have -- >> this is where we go into -- sorry, i respect you congresswoman, ...