good to be with you, i m katy tur. as you can see, president biden is in tampa, florida. using this week to sell what he was laying out during the state of the union, the economy and jobs and protecting medicare and social security. let s listen in. nice and warm like down here. talk about how we re building an economy from the bottom up and the middle out. i m so tired of trickle down economics. trickle down on my dad s table when we were growing up. i came to florida to talk about a critical piece of that plan, giving families and seniors just a little more breathing room, my dad would say, to lower your health care costs. and especially important here in florida, as not surprising to any one of you, you have the highest percentage of seniors of any state in the nation. the highest percentage. folks on fixed incomes, rely on social security and medicare to get by. they deserve a greater sense of security and dignity. that s what my plan offers. to many americans, laying i
Medicare Trustee Tom Saving estimates that the cost of theadditional obligations in the Senate Medicare bill, such as theprescription drug benefit, is equivalent to a two-thirds increasein the $3.8 trillion public debt.
look. the affordable care act also includes this offer. if a state expands medicaid, not medicare, medicaid for the poor. so low income folks can get health care, the federal government picks up 90% of the cost. that s the deal. 90%. well, guess what, the state only pays 10%. it s a great deal. 39 states said, yeah, send it to us. only 11 states, including florida said no, no, we don t want medicaid. no, i m serious. over 1.1 million people in florida would be eligible for medicaid if governor desantis just said i agree to expand it. this isn t calculus, and by the way, it would also help keep rural hospitals open. why are they closing? think about this, all across
are small programs, not a lot of money and they re very popular programs because contrary to mr. mulvaney, they do work. this is the thing i think is fascinating. there s a sense in that they say programs for poor people or poor programs, so medicaid for years, you can cut medicaid because it s those people. not medicare, yeah. what s happened over the years is that the economic devastation of the financial crisis and downward mobility of huge swaths of might america particular particularly means there s lots of folks who voted for trump who on medicaid or seniors who are home bound on meals on wheels or hall rogers from kentucky who talks about the budget being draconian, careless and counterproductive. i think there s a mismatch between kwlo they think the voters are and who they really are. i almost feel like there s a bit of optimism in that trump being undone by his own banality. some of us feared that trump was
money and they re very popular programs because contrary to mr. mulvaney, they do work. this is the thing i think is fascinating. there s a sense in that they say programs for poor people or poor programs, so medicaid for years, you can cut medicaid because it s those people. not medicare, yeah. what s happened over the years is that the economic devastation of the financial crisis and downward mobility of huge swaths of might america particularly means there s lots of folks who voted for trump who on medicaid or seniors who are home bound on meals on wheels or hall rogers from kentucky who talks about the budget being draconian, careless and counterproductive. i think there s a mismatch between kwlo they think the voters are and who they really are. i almost feel like there s a bit of optimism in that trump being undone by his own banality. some of us feared that trump was going to be able to