shirt. greta: they don t realize they ve become p.r. to be used against the united states. without question. greta: the video used against the united states. they ve set back things people were hoping to achieve vis-a-vis cuba. they ve put us in reverse. absolutely. castro s brothers getting old. if they pass on this regime to new rulers, the cuban people still aren t giving a voice, we ll be in a difficult situation. we need change in cuba as soon as possible. greta: congressman, thanks. thanks. greta: on gretawire.com, who s telling the truth? jay-z or jay carney? go to gretawire.com and vote on the poll. cancer clinics across the country are turning away medicare patients, patients who need critical life or death chemotherapy drugs.
the clinics blame the sequester cuts. now one republican congresswoman is trying to reverse the cuts. representative rene elmore joins us. nice to see you. to be with you, greta. greta: the sequester has basically cut off for some, from community centers, medicare patients who are getting chemotherapy. basically what it did is an unintended consequence of sequester, where medicare cuts, 2%, were put in place, but these drugs, chemotherapy agents, have to be administered under the supervision of a physician. so we have our cancer centers in our communities. they re going to be the ones who are harmed the most, because they re working at such an efficient pace. they take care of patients in their own communities. these patients will get care somewhere, but many will be greta: we talked about it in the greenroom before. i should point out that you re a nurse. you say patients will get care. they will get care. greta: here s where i disagree. in order to get care someplace el
thissequesterration. email your congressman and tell them to call her tomorrow. we want to move this as quickly as possible. greta: and everybody wants to fix this. republicans and democrats. anyone who hears this story is scandalized. any delay is a crime to people who paid medicare taxes for decades. absolutely. we must take care of the most vulnerable. greta: we ll get you the 200 and some signatures tomorrow. thank you, greta. greta: steve forbes has a few choice words for president obama s budget. he calls the budget phony and france light. what does he mean by that? does he think businesses should be worried. steve forbes joins us. thank you, greta. greta: can you elaborate? tell me why you think this about the president s new budget? if he were serious, he would know that the president won t pass tax increases. they did in january.
thissequesterration. email your congressman and tell them to call her tomorrow. we want to move this as quickly as possible. greta: and everybody wants to fix this. anpublicans and democrats. anyone hohear this is story is scandalized and this is a betrayal to people who have paid for medicare for decades. we will get the 200-plus signatures tomorrow, i hope. yo. greta: steve forbes has a few choice words for president obama s budget. he calls the budget phony and france light. what does he mean by that? does he think businesses should be worried. steve forbes joins us. thank you, greta. greta: can you elaborate? tell me why you think this about the president s new budget? if he were serious, he would know that the president won t pass tax increases. they did in january.
not all the people have the money or wherewithal to go 15 miles to get treatment somewhere else. it costs much more to medicare. you ll have to get in a longer line. it s not the same as the chemotherapy you re currently dealing with for your cancer. the community centers do such an excellent job of taking care of these patients in a very efficient matter. we need to keep them in their own communities. if they go to the hospital, it is more money. it s about $6500 greta: to the taxpayers, too. to the taxpayers. $6500 more to medicare, and more money to the patients themselves. greta: and they may not have that. it harms the most vulnerable, those who are lower income, on fixed incomes, who have to find transportation outside of their communities. that means they will not get the care they need, so we ll have delayed care. greta: some people won t get chemotherapy to deal with cancer. delayed care is code for