if people aren t seeing that, best not to even say it, right? perception is reality, and if you are speaking something that isn t what the public already sees, they will reject it, but it goes deeper than that, neil. you ve got nancy pelosi saying things about health care that the public doesn t believe and you have harry reid, and this is the day after memorial day, is more focused on the name of a football team than he is in correcting the moral indignations that have been happening to our military veterans, and i don t understand it. i don t understand. we re only five months away from the election, and you ve got the democratic leadership involved in things that the public doesn t care about. fix the va. bring our taxes down. restore accountability to washington. fix this health care system, and stop focusing on the names of football teams and do your gosh darn job. neil, it s not happening, and it s why the american people give congress, now wait for
very personal thing. it was a personal obligation i felt to this country, and i expected that the president and everybody from on down would back my play, and this president is not doing the job. yeah. you reminded me it s not about party. he s always your commander in chief. that s right. it doesn t matter what party it is. the party has a real sacred obligation to back the troops. jed, it s great seeing you in the flesh. you re a full human being. i had no idea. not just a vision on the screen. there you go. not a hologram. already 16 lawsuits filed against the va but you wouldn t believe for what. why the department could be in even bigger trouble. 8:00 p.m. if you don t get it obamacare, have you been paying up? why nancy pelosi says see the beauty and just calm down.
medicaid program, 300,000 extra people signed up in that state that were previously eligible and this is a state with some big budgetary concerns. so that money has to come from somewhere and some analysts say it may come in the form of higher tax tlardollars. you know the beautiful comment nancy pelosi made, she s banking obviously on things getting better. steny hoyer was here where he were saying much the same thing, give it time, it s going to get better. the horror stories we re hearing are going to stop. there are a lot of people who look at this and say the horror stories have only just begun because a lot of people aren t going to see their health care renewed or at least not at its price and that at the end of the year all that fihits the fan. we re very much in flux. one of the people crying foul on this is an analyst at the national center for policy analysis. he says education costs and medicaid costs are the two biggest budgetary costs for states. education costs may h
them. in fact, i have heard more four letter words and i would be fired from your air if yi used them. it s nancy pelosi and harry reid. the american people wanted some changes to health care. they wanted to ensure they d be protected and they wanted to be sure they could use their doctor, that they d not be thrown out of their hospital, and when you have 6 million people and counting that have been told that they don t have their health care, when you have millions more who are finding this huge increase, neil, i have been all over the country, in at least 15 states in the last, say, four months, maybe three months, i don t find anyone calling it beautiful. what i find is people more anxious, more stressed out that health care is more expensive and it is less available, and i just don t think that the former speaker is listening, and i don t think that the senate majority leader gets it. i wonder, too, whether boomerangs on you when you try to convince people that it s better than y
nancy pelosi s. i m not even sure i would put her as you know she s a leader and operator. a level of pragmatism there. right. the difference may be this, joe. how do you think about social security and medicare or do you say these are important programs that a lot of people care about and the simple math makes them unsustainable in a 30-year period so we have to make changes and they have to be fair and equitable but we have to think about the nature of the changes. the president s challenge to go to cpi you re on board for and how about raising the medicare eligibility age from 65 to 67 or something he has toyed with but hasn t yet endorsed? we all know the secret in washington is getting costs under control. the way to do that is changing the incentives in the health care system and not volume based