to the constituencies presumably we re supposed to care about. if we don t fix this, don t fix medicare, seniors are in trouble. that s not right for them. if we don t fix medicaid. that s a bad income for low-income americans. my goods agreement with the folks like you, who are desperately wrong in this did i say that right? no, you meant to say, deeply correct. it s like i m to say we don t have a problem is to say we re not going to fix things that desperately need to be for exampled. you don t have to like paul ryan, but we have to fix something. there s an argument as if people on the left don t understand we need to do something in terms of reform for the social safety net. the question is i m not questioning their grasp of the need for change. i m questioning why they won t. i won t agree with that. the president has put owned changed cpa, and the words that
governors asked to meet with president obama but the white house ignored requests. the president claims he wants to work across party lines to help the american people so perhaps he could start with republican governors who want to solve the nation s health care proms. brian: medicaid, under obama care is going to be expanded. he says my idea is to fix medicare and target several areas. right now they say they re using a 1960 s model which is one-size-fits all, which means no one can afford to pay for it. steve: rather than a great big new expensive program, why not fix the ones we ve got? so he wants to meet with the president along with the other governors. meanwhile let s go to tennessee and tell you about a state senator by the name of stacy campfield. he doesn t have children but he has an idea.
system a great deal of money. eventually there is significant cost. they will get medicare. they re not paid much into it. they get it. some of them, low income people will get medicaid and many people, many of these 11 million will go on to these government subsidized health insurance exchanges set up under obamacare. so point number one, this is going to cost us. that should be part of the debate. brian: carney is saying they become taxpayers for the first time instead of bilking our system. jay carney is making the point, the president s point that immigration reform is good overall for america s middle class, good overall for the economy. making the same claims that were made about obamacare. obamacare really did not work out as a plus for the economy. will this work out as a plus for the economy if and when immigration reform goes through? there is one area where it will be a plus for the economy and that is that the proposal for more high-tech immigrant visas.
around the table, let s see what happens. meanwhile, the president will be flying out to las vegas in air force one. did you realize it costs the federal government $182,000 per flight hour to fly that thing? so nine hours worth of flying time, it s going to cost the federal government $1.6 million for what is effectively just a photo op. gretchen: then you have bobby jindal, governor of louisiana, who has been very local in the past, of course a republican. after the election he said the party needs to take a closer look inside to determine specifically how to get more minorities in line. remember, 70% of the hispanic vote went to president obama back in november. now as one of the governors, he s talking about the cost of medicare. and he would like the president to get together with the governors, since he has talked about outreach, to talk about how to curtail the cost. here s part of the op-ed he wrote. a number of republican
about the basic principles of this administration. why have they not proposed any solution to our our entitlement program? why have they not respond to the law that requires them to lay out a plan to fix medicare, when it gets in financial trouble. it s been certified to be in trouble. the president should be have laid out a plan. he has flatly refused to comply with the law. maybe they will ask him why he supported harry reid not bringing up a budget. he supported that and said, you could filibuster a budget. and he well knows, mr. lew, you can t filibuster a budget. it can be passed with a simple majority. i think there are a lot of questions and matter that says could be inquired of at his manager. greta: he will have a problem, apparently from senator orrin hatch, the ranking member on the on the finance committee because senator hatch has said he s withholding