movements are getting stronger. definitely they are losing money. i will have to get back to you about how much exactly. all right. zain asher, thank you very much. appreciate it. cancer clinics now across the country are being hit hard by the forced spending cuts. they are now having to turn away medicare patients. and lisa sylvester is joining us from d.c. to explain why it s happening and how it s affecting some treatments especialspecifi when you talk about chemotherapy people need. the quester cuts took effect for medicare on april 1st and it was a 2% reduction in payments to medicare providers. but this is hitting those clinics particularly hard. the reason is that cancer drugs have to be administered by a doctor. so that 2% cut, well, it has to come from somewhere. and if you think about it this way, the price of the drug is fixed. so then it has to come directly from the clinic s overhead. and what many cancer clinics are saying is, look, we just can t
finding cost containment measures. i absolutely support cost containment measures, but that does not mean creating a situation where it s a voucher. you know, the republicans basically want to say go find private insurance. we ll give you a voucher to help cover it. that will increase costs as well as lowering health care for seniors. other proposals that they have that don t lower costs, but just take away medicare, make no sense. we ve put in place things that, in fact, will begin to bring down costs and we need to do that. senator, take me through how you envision the next couple of days going. march 1st, the sequester hits, and these budget cuts begin to be felt. people will be furloughed, people in michigan will feel the impact. perhaps not immediately, but as the days progress. what is going to then get people to the bargaining table? the threat of the continuing resolution expiring at the end of march, or will that be
what we know over 60% of the americans don t want social security, they still want medicare. gregg: we are not taking away medicare and social security. marjorie we re sustaining them for future generations because they re on a path of unsustainability. you know what i m going to do? get my little elf on the shelf and put them in the halls of congress and report back to santa all the bad behavior going on. we need compromise, no question. the grinch is in hawaii. gregg: if we could put you two together in a room i know we could get a compromise. i know we could. gregg: tony, i could easily cut 4 trillion. give me an hour. tony, marjorie, good to see you both. heather: in an hour? gregg: in two hours i could do it. heather: i believe you. new fallout after egypt s election as a hard-line islamic party takes one step closer to controlling just about all of egypt s major power centers. we ll talk with general jack keane next whether this is
federal budget that is not medicare, defense, or social security. it is a complete fantasy. when it s not a fantasy, it is drastic and destructive. yeah. i mean, it s if you actually implemented that plan, it would not be small government. it would be anarchy. it s a ludicrous proposal. also to ezra s point, paul ryan likes to talk about his brand as the truth teller and as the policy guy and the details guy. but there are, in fact, a lot of details that are left out of his budget including as ezra said which loopholes they re going to close. since he won t spell that out, he actually isn t willing to tell the hard truths about closing the deductions which benefit large class people. christie were saying they re not telling hard truths about their own policy plans. i thank you very much for being here to both of you. crystal as well as ezra. i notice you quoting ezra. isn t he the kind of guy you wish you had sitting next to you in school?
been made to the american people that everybody in washington, republicans and democrats understand that there s not the money to pay for them. so the paul ryan plan keeps medicare as it is for everybody who s 55 and older. but there s going to be changes for medicare if that program is going to survive. it s important that it survives for people that are 55 and younger. so paul ryan s going to have to make a case. he s going to have to convince people and obviously the democrats are going to say to 65, 70-year-olds in florida that he s going to take away medicare. it s not true. but he s going to have to deal with that. it s a political challenge. how do you do that and still maintain tax cuts for the wealthy and call it shared? i think the reality of the country s fiscal condition, and you re not going to hear republicans say this in the campaign, but the reality is that programs are going to get cut. and taxes are going to go up. and it s necessary to do in