the bloomberg review, stop waiting for the aca to implode. one that promised to cover roughly as many people as obamacare does, or even more. letting people on medicaid buy into the market by converting much of the program into tax credits, for example, would be more viable than just kicking its new beneficiaries off the rolesment opponents of obamacare should always have been thinking along these lines. now, they have less and less choice. john, that really is the option here. it s not so much about repeal. it is about replace or enhance what the law is, but there are no real options on the table for people. i know paul ryan s budget will come out talking about medicaid options. and repeal, i believe. yeah, you can t beat something with nothing. and the republicans 20 years ago, 1994, guided by bill kristol, argued that opposing then first lady clinton s health care bill was enough an
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proposed, i said that we ought to pay for the medical costs that we had now. medicare, before we started aing another benefit. the fact is that we ve been borrowing from medicare since 2001. that is not sustainable to continue to borrow to pay for medicare. we need to balance the medicare budget first. you also say most people don t realize that we are going into debt in order to pay our bills like medicare. so you re not being hard hearted if you say medicare has got to be reformed. there is just no money there. yeah. moreover, you got to be realistic. congressman ryan and others say they support medicare. well, you better support some revenues to pay for it. i m not saying what the right balance is. everybody wants americans to have good medical care. everybody wants seniors to have good medical care. but we should only have the extent of medical care we re willing to pay for. if we want a level of medicare, we ought to pay for it. if you don t want to pay for it, you won t get t
that paul ryan decided to introduce a new budget. he tweeted, so paul ryan plays charlie brown to the media s lucy by providing yet another comprehensive budget for dems to savage. joining me now, jerod bernstein, an msnbc analyst. jerod, here you have republicans no longer so sure they should run on a repeal obama care platform and now the democrats suddenly have a document they do want to use in their campaigns, and that is the paul ryan budget. exactly. you had a good discussion earlier about the sign-ups. well, it is ironic that on the day that we got good news about the affordable care act gaining some momentum in terms of folks signing up, getting coverage, we
the top 5% or the top 1% are doing everything. bill, welcome. great to be with you. you went back in history to see how much more responsible we were back then to see where we are right now. i don t know how well you digested paul ryan s budget. you talk about cutting $5.1 trillion out of the budget. is that possible? sure it s possible. for 90% of american history, we brought our spending and revenues in line. i looked at his budget and a lot of it is savings way out into the future. what they used to do in the past, is if you supported a balanced budget, you balanced it immediately. you didn t promise it in ten or 20 years. jfk is an example of that in your book, in 1960, he said i ll do it in case of emergency. in case of emergency, i ll ask to you pay for it. on second thought, bill, you see obamacare the way it s laying out and how much it looks like it s going to cost. do you have any second thoughts about supporting it? i didn t support it. at the time that it was