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Package that involved cuts to medicare benefits, if that's what was required for a grand bargain? >> i wouldn't go -- i certainly wouldn't go as far as house republican budget, which i think would eliminate medicare as we know it today. there are ways to make health savings in medicare. health savings that will mean it will be a solvent program for so much longer. we shouldn't, though, break the basic promise to the american people that medicare is going to protect them in their retirement. >> senator graham, i hear in that something i've heard from my own reporting at the white house, which i...