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some medicare costs. lawrence, are you suggesting that the republicans are little bit hypocritical about medicare? i m getting that feeling! well, look it, the problem is, everybody knows, out there, 15 years from now, we do have to control medicare costs. we ve got to control medicare costs, largely because health care costs, overall, have to be controlled. i mean, they re now 18% of the national budget. in fact, they re 18% of the national economy. and they re going to be about 25% of the national economy. at least the affordable care act, the obama s health care act, does provide the beginnings of health care cost control. and that s a good thing. what ryan and romney keep saying is, we are going to be saving medicare from itself. well, they re not saving medicare. they re actually reducing the coverage for seniors, and they re doing absolutely nothing about controlling the overall growth of health care costs,
lawrence, are you suggesting that the republicans are little bit hypocritical about medicare? i m getting that feeling! well, look it, the problem is, everybody knows, out there, 15 years from now, we do have to control medicare costs. we ve got to control medicare costs, largely because health care costs, overall, have to be controlled. i mean, they re now 18% of the national budget. in fact, they re 18% of the national economy. and they re going to be about 25% of the national economy. at least the affordable care act, the obama s health care act, does provide the beginnings of health care cost control. and that s a good thing. what ryan and romney keep saying is, we are going to be saving medicare from itself. well, they re not saving medicare. they re actually reducing the coverage for seniors, and they re doing absolutely nothing about controlling the overall growth of health care costs, which are drawing medicare costs upwards. and jonathan cohn, the cbo is