it and ignored your question about that, in other words, adding the cost in would have widened the deficit spending but, we talk about six years of reforms, being paid for with ten years tax hikes, and, levies and fees and the thing is some of these tax kick in in 2014, excise tax on cadillac plans and kicks in and the president wants and that could be, you don t think anybody will negotiate that out of the bill and get the tax hikes wiped away and you have $124 billion in double-counting from social security revenues, that are supposedly going toward the bill and the money is supposed to go toward paying social security payments, also, the class act, long term health insurance, 72 billion dollars, of revenue, statements coming in there, the money is supposed go towards benefit and then, besides that, greta, you have what people tend to ignore is the drug companies, got away with $80 billion in savings, they will and raised their prices. and raise prices.
previous version and what they said is we will not include that in the bill an ignore it and pretend like that huge pile of red stuff is not a problem for us. and, then, the other kind of what other tricks do they have in order to keep the total amount of the money at 940 and to keep the so-called deficit reduction number at 130. it was 110, i believe in the previous version and if you for example, $52 billion in payroll taxes, for social security, as paying for currently health care expenditures, and, 72 billion dollars worth of premiums for long term care, paying for health care expenses and $456 billion of medicare cuts, as being cuts and paying for medicare expenses, then you can paper up a lot but if you are forced to be straight about it, you are forced to h account for a lot of red ink.
which i happen to like, being part of the bill, is that going to help with some of the conservatives? yeah, you ve already started to see senator cruz who had been calling this obama care light, start to come on, ron johnson from wisconsin, maybe mike lee from utah. so it is starting to assuage them. they have sort of given up some of their reservations about this bill. as you said, it is not root and branch reform, but it is a net improvement and directional progress. but you think it s actually a pretty important reform? i think it is pretty important reform. what james is talking about with medicaid, this bill saves 772 billion dollars over ten years. now, look, that s not and even more as you go out. if the structural reform that makes changes over the long-term, that s the type of change we need in washington. all right. so here s step back and look at the politics. republicans in the senate in 2018 have one senator in a tough