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Standards. >> and romney's advisors this is knock on effect from obamacare and it could lead to more hospitals closing. any truth to that? >> possibly to some extent. you have to look to the degree of financial pressure. when you are looking at year in which $900 million to a billion is being imposed in fines. romney's solution is an open market so they can lay their own standards, but at the end of the day that will take ten years before it really happens. only alternative right now is really the plan that is in in place, a fine system. as a result some hospitals are really going to feel the ...

Are on your ticket and who you have said you would sign their signature piece of legislation. talk about that. that's a concrete thing. that has real numbers. that's been evaluated by the cbo. don't talk about the romney plan, the romney plant doesn't exist. the romney plan is whatever you want it to be, whatever you want to hear. so don't talk about that plan, because you cannot win talking about his plan, because his plan will be whatever he wants it to be. >> steve, what do you think would happen if president obama said, listen, your plan, as far as i can tell, is whatever you want it to be...

Medicare policy. he disputed the $6400 number. it would have done that. that's in a congressional budget office report. it also, unlike the romney/ryan plan, would have completely eliminated traditional medicare. it wouldn't have even been an option. one truth about ryan's record here, and it's a difficulty of the campaign that biden is trying to exploit, is that just as of a couple years ago before ryan got brought into line a little more, his plans were well outside the republican mainstream. now booid seasiden is trying to answer. >> exactly. on this snuubject in particular he started to ho...

He said that there were no -- that there was no study, no statistics that show increased costs in ryan one in the first medicare proposal which the congressional budget office says is not the case. ryan two is another issue. they were debating ryan one. do you think this is going to be a problem with seniors and the vote in florida and other key states? >> i don't think so. i think the romney ticket is winning on that issue and it's just uncontested that the administration takes money out of medicare, $700 billion to pay for obama care. you know, seniors understand that medicare needs to be re...

Case on medicare. my story in time focuses on whether the ryan plan's proposal for medicare are going to be a problem in a state like florida and other swing states. i thought biden got the best of the argument. ryan i've seen him give better pren traces trying to explain why medicare has been saved in his view and didn't see him at his best. >> they focused -- biden cleverly focused on ryan one which is not the romney endorsed plan, and which is -- >> the $6400 number not really accurate. >> he could have said we've moved on from that and refined that. could have come up with a way of explain...