but it impacts all of us in the states because, you know, it impacts the money being taken out and how it s being spent. so you have this situation now where governor romney e s explaining very well today how the $716 billion cuts from medicare and it is for current seniors that get those cuts by doing things like lowering doctors payments. you already have doctors who are bailing out of medicare. they put this 15-person board in place that s going to decide every proceed wrdure that senio get. barbara, wouldn t the paul ryan of two weeks ago and other republicans be embarrassing of accusing the president of cutting medicare when republicans have argued for years that democrats have been unwilling to cut medicare? no. see, the white house is bragging about those cuts but what we have said is we are not going to touch anyone 55 or older. the way we make the savings is by the 55 and under. by us, by our children, by younger workers. by saying, let s give you the kind of plan that con
medicare estimate that approximately 4 million people will lose their coverage under medicare advantage. i know you want to rebut that. yes, andrea. this really requires a good conversation for the country. mitt romney is simply being dishonest and hypocritical with ameri american people. i have in my hand the trustee statement, says the financial outlook for the medicare program is substantially improved as a result of the changes in the affordable care act, as a result of obama care. what romney and ryan would do is immediately increase costs to seniors with higher prescription drug costs, because they would re-open the doughnut hole. they would immediately require seniors to pay more for preventative health services then they would phase in a plan that gives seniors on medicare a much worse deal than members of
will like it. it s an uncompromising, tea party manifesto that says we re going to provide more tax breaks to people like mitt romney at the expense of everybody else. at the expense of seniors, at the expense of investing in our kids education, and as just indicated at the expense of middle income taxpayers who are going to have to pay more taxes so people like mitt romney pay less. so that s the debate we should be having and i m confident when the american people learn more about where mitt romney and paul ryan want to take the country, the more they re going to reject that alternative. let s take another look at mitt romney krcriticizing president obama s medicare plans. the president s plan cuts medicare excuse me. well, let s see. there we go. by $716 billion. cut. in addition, the trustees of
about how to accomplish those reductions, but the idea that the republicans want to end medicare as we know it, or that president obama is trying to slash and burn medicare, they re both ridiculous. i think what we have to do is recognize that medicare is underfunded based upon reasonable assumptions, $37 trillion and growing. and that we re ultimately going to have to rationalize our promises and focus on how best to control costs and how to balance compassion and cost. so let s deal with the substance and solutions rather than the spend and the mud slinging. one of the columns today by robert samuelson called the hole in ryaryan s medicare plan, say one of the big problems in the cuts in ryan budget are very severe on the domestic side but he won t deal with taxes. is that a fundamental flaw in the ryan approach? well, there are two aspects of congressman ryaryan s plan t
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