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Can you think and can you guarantee based on what you've seen on the romney plan that they'll be able to save some of those hospitals so that seniors and all of us will be able to get the healthcare we need? and where are they going to pay for it? >> absolutely. it can be done. we have to get back to the principles of healthcare. affordability, accessibility, quality and choices. authors the principles we hold dear in melt care, those are the principles that are destroyed by the president's healthcare plan. those are the principles that we, governor romney and paul ryan are going to push forwa...

Going up in three times the rate of inflation for a decade, for the last two years, health care costs have been under 4% in both years for the first time in 50 years. so... let me ask you something. are we better off because president obama fought for health care reform? you bet we are. and there are two other attacks on the president in tampa. i think deserve an answer. first both governor romney and congressman ryan attacked the president for allegedly robbing medicare. $716 billion. that is the same tax they leveled against congress in to 10. they got a lot of votes on it. but it's not true...

Going up in three times the rate of inflation for a decade, for the last two years, health care costs have been under 4% in both years for the first time in 50 years. so... let me ask you something. are we better off because president obama fought for health care reform? you bet we are. and there are two other attacks on the president in tampa. i think deserve an answer. first both governor romney and congressman ryan attacked the president for allegedly robbing medicare. $716 billion. that is the same tax they leveled against congress in to 10. they got a lot of votes on it. but it's not true...

Joining me now is congresswoman debbie wasserman shultz, chairwoman of the democratic national committee. thank you for joining me tonight. i hope you like my white board. >> oh, reverend al. that was classic. thank you so much. >> so mr. romney keeps pointing his finger at the president for robbing medicare. what do you say about that? >> well, that just blows the facts up when it comes to mitt romney's full embrace of the ryan plan. i mean, he said as recently as last night in a local tv interview in wisconsin that his medicare plan is nearly identical to the ryan plan. the ryan plan -- the ...

They appeal to generational blocks of people. mostly younger, sometimes mom and the female vote is going to be critical to both sides. that doesn't surprise me. but i do think that the romney campaign, to their credit, whether you agree with them or not, are fighting back in a way you probably don't see republicans typically do. and i think paul ryan has been a friend of mine for over 20 years. i think he's someone that many has energized governor romney to get aggressive in the sense of, hey, we're going to argue with you about medicare. we're going to argue with you about issues of character...