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independents. take a listen. cutting waste, saving energy and reducing our reliance on foreign oil. problem of course, as you likely know, is that this plan runs directly counter to what he said on the campaign trail, specifically even though the white house says the president has been consistent. believe me, if i thought there was any evidence at all that drilling could save people money who are struggling to fill up their gas tanks by this summer or this year or even the next few years i would consider it but it won t. and interesting about-face seen as a nod to republicans, one that may be closely tied to the fate of a climate bill in the senate. moderate democrats admitting the legislation is unlikely to pass without an extension of drilling to gain republican s support. gop leaders today are already arguing the plan doesn t go far enough. house minority leader john boehner says, keeping the pacific dmoeft alaska as well as the most promising resources of the gulf of mexic
latoday, the report wil complete from the cbo and analit and w website. basically, most of the legislation, the biggest one biggest covering of the cost comes from cutting waste, fraud, and abuse, largely in medicare. over $500 billion comes from that. the remainder of the money comes from a number of things. one of the victorys that we have in the house is that our numbers did not like the excise tax on insurance plans. we thought it hurt the middle class. there was a debate about that, so the higher end of that is left in the plan. i call it the platinum rolls royce piece of it. the rest will be covered by medicare fee on unearned income. medicare fee unearned income. whatever category that is.
going to be the federal government. we believe it ought to be patients and families and doctors. let me hit on a couple of things the president says. he did say, and i m quoting here, that every senior should know there s no cutting of your guaranteed medicare benefits, period. do you agree with the president on that point? well, that s the top line. the bottom line is, he s going to slash $350 billion from medicare. i don t know how you take $350 billion out of the medicare program without rationing care. he says he s cutting waste, right? get rid of that waste. that s right. but you could decrease the payments to every single physician in this land and not get the $350 billion. so the only way to do that, if you look at the real numbers, is to ration care. that s why we believe that that ought not be on the table at all. we believe there s a positive way to reform medicare. again, that allows the senior citizens to be able to select the insurance that they want, not the one t