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And the net increase is more than the sequester cut, and i can do this with a lot of boards and chalkboard better than i can talking about it, but if you have an increase in the money, minus the 85 billion tkpwhrar dollars that was supposedly cut from the across the board sequester there will be a lot of republicans, especially in the house who are very upset. jon: thinking about it, i mean the sequester numbers $85 billion that is less than one tenth of the stimulus program passed four years ago earlier in the president's term. >> it's about 2.2.3% of the budget, and in the big picture not a ...

Deficit. >> i'm confident we can get there. if people of good will come together mr. speaker john boehner said he is ready to work with the president on a stop gap measure to avoid a government shutdown at the end ofham an raise doubts will the democrats are serious about long-term budget. >> the senate hasn't done a budget for four years. they committed to do a budget this year. i hope they do. >> white house officials incyst the president has already made progress on the so-called grand bargain. >> $2.5 trillion along that road. you know, it may be the fatigue bargain, i guess, if you go all...

Cuts into readiness as we heard the service branch chiefs talk extensively about risk and readiness crisis. so we're trying to let other members know we've already been to the table in reducing military budgets and taking 50% of the sequester cut and placing it in 18% of the budget, not a smart way to go about this. we want to make sure we reduce defic deficit. this is not the smart way to do it. and it cuts at this nation's ability to defend itself. >> it sounds like have you reservations about the sequester now. but you did vote for the budget control act of 2011, which included sequestratio...

Insurance plans are going to do well and hospitals are worried though, doctors are worried. they're saying that the sequester cut which includes 2% cut to medicare providers is really coming on top of cuts and cuts, years of cuts and everyone wants to get out of medicare and it's not good for patients or the american people. >> greta: the doctor shortage, losing 2% and going to cut medicare and probably not as much from medicare as a private patient in the first place and now you're going to cut 2% more, what doctor, if there's a shortage, what doctor is going to provide that medical care? >> ...

Insurance plans are going to do well and hospitals are worried though, doctors are worried. they're saying that the sequester cut which includes 2% cut to medicare providers is really coming on top of cuts and cuts, years of cuts and everyone wants to get out of medicare and it's not good for patients or the american people. >> greta: the doctor shortage, losing 2% and going to cut medicare and probably not as much from medicare as a private patient in the first place and now you're going to cut 2% more, what doctor, if there's a shortage, what doctor is going to provide that medical care? >> ...