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Collins. let's take a look at that together. >> sure. >> we should not be making fundamental changes in a vital safety net program that's been on the books for 50 years. the medicaid program. without having a single hearing to evaluate what the consequences are going to be. we need to go through the normal commit entry process and get input from people on both sides of the aisle. that's what would produce the kind of legislation that we need. >> do you agree with that? >> well, i've said many times on national television that i think it should be a bipartisan thing. i think folks should come t...

The headline here as you understand it regarding the senate bill? >> the headline is it's a popular bill because it's a bad bill. it will force people to pay much more for their premiums out-of-pocket. it hits the lowest income people through the medicaid cuts and it's a huge tax break for higher income people. people are realizing the content and opposing it. >> steve, one of the things that seems striking to me is, it would seem to me this is a fundamental reshaping of one of this country's oefdeldest and largest safety nets, medicare. we're talking a dramatic transformation -- >> it's the l...

>> well, obviously, if you want to preserve a social safety net program you're going to make it very personal stories, this is jenny's story, joe's story, a bill called jenny's bill which never again will we let anyone die for lack of a brain transplant. that's, of course, you know, bringing the personal risk, the personal challenge of something that is such a public good like health care, and people should do that, on the flip side, you have your guy that says everyday joe is forced to buy things he doesn't want and can't afford at prices he would rather not participate and he's being told he...

People additionally could be getting insurance right now if you guys had expanded medicaid. how can you say your state is better off when had your state expanded medicaid, hundreds of thousands more people would have insurance? >> the two worst things that obamacare did to the health care system was, first, they took the free market system out of the and we put able-bodied adults on medicaid. a safety net program that was never intended for age-bodied adults. medicaid is a safety net program that was intended for the aged, the blind, the disabled, children and mothers, not for able-bodied adul...

Expenditures, that is a big chart. so in other words, they miscalculated exactly how much this was going to cost. and the affordable care act has reversed things around for medicare. but yet it is the privatization carrie. why do the republicans want to privatize everything when privatization is all about profit and not people. >> we know that privatization is the best way to give people the best care. we do need a safety net program for people who can't afford the private care. but take medicare part dt drug plan. it is sectored around private sector plans. part d came in under budget. can yo...