roger ebert died thursday at the age of 70. the pulitzer prize winner was remembered fondly by illinois governor quinn, who said roger ebert was a great man. no doubt gene siskel is saving him a seat in the balcony upstairs. president obama is renewing his deal with the republicans on the deficit. a proposal next week includes changing to taxes. it also will revive a savings in medicare over ten years. dan, how do you expect republicans to respond to the white house s plan. first of all, i think the republicans have always thought that entitlement should be on the table, specifically social security, so see that as
prince william, his kiss dissed by a 4-year-old, no less. the royal had been greeting well-wishers with his wife katherine in scotland but the little girl was having none of it. we told you earlier that president obama is getting ready to unveil a new budget proposal next week. sources say it will propose changes to medicare, and that could save millions of dollars over ten years. it also asks for some new tax hikes. joining us right now, cnn s political contributor, and ana navar navarro, cnn contributor and republican strategist. all right, donna, the white house is hoping for compromise. do you think this will be the moment that it happens?
rick scott, you can go as liberal or as conservative as you want. they all come to you and they talk about medicaid. medicaid s killing us. absolutely. and yet washington does nothing on medicare and medicaid. instead they keep going back, as he said, with a meat ax to discretionary spending, which is about 12, 13% of the budget. haven t we been reading stories lately, jeff, about a savings in medicare that have come through? you know, medicare started some ways to cut back on the fee for service. and they said if your patients return to the hospital, for example, within certain number of days, you re not getting twice the reimbursement. all of a sudden hospitals are finding ways to operate the health system better, to take care that the patients take their medicine, to use community workers to improve the health care. so we have a system reform issue here. and i keep stressing, it s not just medicare or medicaid. that s about 5% of the 18% of
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