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York 26 to try to convince anybody in that district who is worried he s there to convince you that medicare is safe with him and safe with the republicans. joining us now is democratic senator amy klobachur of minnesota. hi, rachel. great to be on again. harry reid has scheduled a vote for sometime next week on the paul ryan plan. that s right. how important do you think it is to actually schedule a vote on this, get everybody on the record on this? i think people have to understand that this was the budget plan that was put forth by the republicans in the house. it passed the house. and that s why it s being considered by the senate. and the concern i ve heard at home is people want us to do something reasonable. i think you know i have been a supporter of the bipartisan budget commission and the work that s being done there. not everyone that s watching your show will agree with everything in that suggested plan. i don t agree with everything. but at least it s a start. it ....
Spending cuts. and as you know, the ryan plan doesn t do that. it balances the budget and doesn t even do that for the first 10 years. it has really no cuts. but what it does is has a bunch of tax cuts front loaded, and then what it does is the budget goes on the backs of the middle class. 2/3 of those cuts are on the backs of the middle class, and it eliminating medicare as we know it. that s not what the people of my state want it. they want shared sacrifice. they want the debt to come down. and we can do it in a reasonable way without taking away medicare from our seniors. nancy pelosi today saying that democrats do have a plan in response to what paul ryan has proposed, and that plan is called medicare. it s a good retore cal turn, but it does raise the question. should voters believe that democrats will absolutely protect medicare? that benefit cuts in medicare, the entitlement basis of medicare, all of that is off the table in terms of trying to balance the budget? ....
York 26 to try to convince anybody in that district who is worried he s there to convince you that medicare is safe with him and safe with the republicans. joining us now is democratic senator amy klobachur of minnesota. hi, rachel. great to be on again. harry reid has scheduled a vote for sometime next week on the paul ryan plan. that s right. how important do you think it is to actually schedule a vote on this, get everybody on the record on this? i think people have to understand that this was the budget plan that was put forth by the republicans in the house. it passed the house. and that s why it s being considered by the senate. and the concern i ve heard at home is people want us to do something reasonable. i think you know i have been a supporter of the bipartisan budget commission and the work that s being done there. not everyone that s watching your show will agree with everything in that suggested plan. i don t agree with everything. but at least it s a start. it ....
Option. what gingrich talked about 15 years ago is still a viable discussion point today. the gingrich plan, not the ryan plan. i m not saying one or the other. i m saying you can t have both. yes, you can. that s the ryan doesn t give the option. fellows, let me finish. that s the basis of the discussion. you guys are already taking extreme positions. what is going to happen here, what has to happen, for this to work for individuals, is you ll have to pull together various pieces of plans to create a system that s viable and operational for everyone. what paul ryan has done is put on the table the beginning of that discussion. he s saying this is where we re ready to start from, to put in plague a system that ultimately benefits people. i ll give you an assignment, ....
You can still make it part of the standard or the default, will you let s not take the options off the table. that s not his plan. michael, i know you to be a compassionate guy. if you want to do a default plan, i ll listen, because what it means is that the medicare option of staying in medicare is still available to seniors if they choose it, but this they want this voucher, they can go ahead and get it. that s something that s worth discussing, but the ryan plan doesn t say that. let me tell you, there isn t a health insurance company out there that s going to insure an 80-year-old for $15,000. but that 80-year-old is grandfathered into the system. we re talking about the 80-year-old of the future. and they won t be able to get health care for $15,000 by then. ....