allowed them to compete more the total cost would sink more than a dollar and have all the preventative well mess programs for free. martha: what it will end up being seniors will pay more out-of-pocket, not folks who are seniors now, but folks who are seniors in the future. they look at the house republican budget for example and they look there and they find out are some seniors who would pay more. for example, under the house republican budget which is not the romney plan which obviously paul ryan had a lot to do with, if you re a senior making 400,000 or more a year in family income, your working and 70 years old and still working on wall street and you make 400,000 a year you will have to pick up $6500 of cost. if you make more than $160,000 a year, family income, you will have to make up about, about, $4500 in costs. that you would otherwise be covered by medicare. if you re less than $160,000
manufacturing plant. but now the city is cancelling the award because the family opposing the mandate is too controversial. the battle over medicare is taking center stage on the campaign trail. mitt romney and president obama s team duking it out over the weekend. they rated 716 billion of medicare to pay for obama care. that s a record the president doesn t want to talk about. that s why he has blame attack, smear, fear. if he wants to protect medicare for his mother he should thank president obama for what he has done in the past few years to extend the life of the medicare trust fund to help seniors with prescription drug costs to help seniors get free prevent tiff care. who is right on this one?
we already underpay for medicare what they would normally get. as a result, doctors limit the amount of coverage, the number of medicare patients they have and hospitals are forced to find ways to make up the losses on medicare patients by charging more to the nonmedicare, nonmedicaid population. and this is going to hurt and they know it. the other part there is $156 billion cut out of what is called medicare these are insurance policies seniors can get. 24% of seniors took advantage of this gives them services for preventative care and additional wellness programs. right now the government puts out $1.14 for every dollar it puts out for every dollar of medicare advantage plan. if you compare apples to apples peltz and look what medicare provides and same costs under medicare advantage, we re spending 9% less under medicare advantage. some health economists think if we took rules and regulations away from medicare advantage and
are 65 and older, so obviously medicare, and getting the romney-ryan message across that we are building and strengthening on medicare, not tearing it down, that it s the president who would actually end, to some extent, medicare as we know it, sort of turning the tables on them. the other issues we pointed out in the first hour of our program is that new hampshire is one of the ten states that has really seen its unemployment going up month-by-month, and it s of course one of the battleground states here because the romney campaign really feels like, martha, it s in play this year. martha: it s interesting to watch these two together. we spent so much time wondering who the second person on this ticket would be. they do by all accounts really seem to like each other, get along well, and that went into the decision no doubt that mitt romney made when he picked paul ryan. paul ryan is no shrinking violet
rhetoric like the kind we have today. when mitt romney was governor he reached across the aisle, he got things done and he balanced the budget without raising taxes. [cheers and applause] now we ve heard a little bit about medicare lately from the president. we want this debate, we need this debate, and we are going to win this debate about medicare. [cheers and applause] you know like you, when i think about medicare it s not just a program with numbers and words, it s personal security that has been there for my family when we need it. i had my mom, betty down with me in the villages in florida on saturday [cheers and applause] she s been on medicare for