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To debate with me, define your terms. what do you mean by restructuring medicare? making it a voucher? or can we work together to strengthen it to prolong its life, to increase its benefits as we did in the affordable care act? >> what percentage would you put ongoing over the cliff? >> i believe we can get an agreement. i really do. and i think that if our republican friends, they might as well let us know, the answer is no. let's all go home and deal with that. but the fact is that we're here and i'm hopeful that we can come to terms for step one, a down payment in terms of cuts and revenue ...

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Payments to providers in order to use that money to prolong the life of medicare. we also built into the affordable care act rewarding performance and quality and value of procedures, not quantity of procedures. so it's about quality, not just quantity. >> how convinced are you that they really want to get the entitlements and get them going in a different direction? boehner comes out and he offers basically the ryan plan. this is really what they want, isn't it? >> there's a range as to what they want. there's some who have said publically they think medicare should wither on the vine. the ry...

Change. how confident are you that you can protect all that and get what you want? >> i think it's important for the american people to understand the terms we're using. raising the medicare age doesn't really in the overall scheme of things reduce cost. it just makes more of a problem. we still have to deal with the issues of between 65 and 67. so to raise the age sounds okay, that sounds like maybe to some a good idea. i don't even think it sounds like a good idea. but it's not the money raiser people think that it is. so we know that if we go into this, as we did in the affordable care act,...

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