it s not 7.4 million seniors are projected to lose the current medicare advantage coverage they have. that s a $3,200 benefit cut. that didn t happen. more people signed up. more people these are from your own actuaries. more people signed up for medicare advantage after the change. nobody mr. vice president, i know you re under a lot of duress to make up for lost round, i think people would be better served if we don t keep interrupting each other. don t take all the four minutes then. we re saying don t change benefits for people 55 and above. they already organized their retirement around these promises. let me ask you this. what is your specific plan for seniors who really can t afford to make up the difference in the value of what you call a premium support plan and others call a voucher? 100% coverage. that s what we re saying. so we re saying income adjust these premium support payments by taking down the subsidies for wealthy people. look, this is a pl
administration came to congress and said 1 out of 6 hospitals and nursing homes are going to go out of business as a result of this that s not what they said. 7.4 million seniors are projected to lose their advantage care coverage, that s a $32 mon. benefit cut poor people these are from [overlapping dialogue] more people signed up for medicare advantage after the change. nobody is mr. vice-president [overlapping dialogue] i know you are under a lot of duress to make [laughter] i think people would be better served if we don t keep interrupting each other. don t take over 4 minutes. we are saying don t change it for people 55 and above. they have organized their retirement let me ask you this. what is your specific plan for senior who is really can t afford to make up the difference, in the value what have you call a premium support plan and others call a voucher and what we are saying how do you make that up?
have, a $3,200 benefit cut. that didn t happen. more people signed up. more people signed up for medicare advantage after the change. this tax is a million people, a million small businesses. 97% of the american business, small businesses? taxes small businesses the greatest job creators. it s in spite of their opposition. oh, god. they ve given 20 waivers to this sanction. do you think people learned something from this debate, important things or was it more about the style over substance? i think the debate was as illuminating and substantive as i can recall seeing. not on every issue. on some issues, on iran policy, health care, which are two of the key issues for the debate where there are real differences. i think voters would have come away seeing that a romney administration would be much more aggressive, perhaps more
their own actuary from the administration came to congress and said, one out of six hospitals and nursing homes are going to go out of business as a result of this. it s not 7.4 million seniors are projected to lose the current medicare advantage coverage they have. that s a $3,200 benefit cut. that didn t happen. more people signed up. more people these are from your own actuaries. more people signed up for medicare advantage after the change. nobody mr. vice president, i know you re under a lot of duress to make up for lost round, i think people would be better served if we don t keep interrupting each other. don t take all the four minutes then. we re saying don t change benefits for people 55 and above. they already organized their retirement around these promises. let me ask you this. what is your specific plan for seniors who really can t afford to make up the difference in the value of what you call a premium support plan and others call a voucher? 100%
in two days. why? we are so happy about the greek bailout. then the greek prime minister comes out and says, you know what, let s put this plan up for a vote for referendum among the very people who have been rioting in the streets in protesting a benefit cut. and we should explain to the viewers what we are talking about is that germany and france say, look, we will bail you out, greece, but you need to have an as austerity program and you have to start cutting things and the people of greece have to vote on this. they are furious they will lose benefits so the prime minister says let s vote on it so now take over. i don t know what he is thinking. the bad thing about the selling we see is that for the rank and file investor, we end up feeling like, shoot, do these pros know something i don t know? should i sell, too? and here s the thing. pros are selling so furiously is because they don t know anything