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Clinics across the country are turning away thousands of medicare patients. they are blaming the sequester is. ted joins us. tell me, ted, why are the cancer centers turning away medicare patients? >> well, the problem is, greta, is that the sequester cut medicare across-the-board by 2%. and the biggest problem here with cancer clinics is unlike cutting services by 2% that physicians provide it is cutting the underlying cost of the drug. you are talking about taking a fixed cost for a drug that a cancer clinic dispenses to a patient and administers to patient and cuting that underlying cost. t...

We -- >> greta: come back to town. >> come back to town. >> greta: stop the trips. stop the fund raising. you know, stop taking your two week vacation for the problem you created for everybody else. come back and do your job you got elected for because it is painful what they are doing to the medicare cancer patients and their familys. >> we shouldn't put cancer patients in the way of politics and that is the problem that is happening right now. we have to get cancer patients out of that. especially seniors our most vulnerable population we have to do something about it immediately. i totally ...

Budget cuts that congress approved and the president signed, and if it was hitting government contractors and defense companies last month, you did not see much evidence of that in this report. these will be companies in manufacturing, information services, and technical services. they did not get hit hard last month. now, federal government jobs fell by 14,000, but most of that was the postal service, which is not covered by the sequester. >> all those tax increases likely had an effect as well. peter barnes, thanks very much. >> you bet. >> one person is dade, dozens of school children injur...

Cold weather, i mean, you know, get out the tiniest violin in the world. >> the sequester, cracking poo me up. the government losts 7,000 jobs? you blame it on the sequester? martha: no way this kicked? >> then payroll tax. retailers lost 24,000 jobs of payroll tax. i go with that a bit. people are bringing home less money and spending less at restaurants and retailers. i can see that. i don't think that much this quickly. >> the sequester did have an impact. it had a small immediate impact. businesses plan for the future and knowing there will be some sort of significant government cutback, b...

Are down, as well. alan kruger, chair of the president's council of economic advisors. obviously, a report that you're probably not very satisfied with. what is the most disappointinga is the most disappointing part of this jobs report? >> chuck, every month i try to look at the bigger picture but i don't think it's any different. if washington avoids policies that will slow us down, like the sequester, that will help us to continue to recover. >> are you concerned that the pattern is the same in '10, '11, '12, good quarters that led to pessimistic quarters? >> i'm more focused on trying to pu...