negotiations you re describing could lead to further reductions for hospitals and doctors and other care-givers, or we ll get a sequester n a sequester, hospitals would be particularly hit as well as other who is receive and provide service and provide services for medicare beneficiaries for seniors. jon: you re talking what if congress can t come up with what, $1.2 trillion budget cuts? right. jon: automatically billions get cut from medicare, right? right. what was misunderstood by some of the policymakers in this process who talked about avoiding hits to seniors these kinds of arbitrary, across-the-board cuts that affect hospitals and will affect doctors and others who provide care to seniors, the care seniors depend on, it will affect our ability to maintain the technology and the services that people expect and deserve from medicare. jon: okay, but you just said
younger from the x generation down we know social security can t pay us. there s a 5.3 trillion dollar shortfall. i propose modest changes. higher income don t get as much. down we adjust the age to reflect longevity. give younger people a voluntary choice to have an account for their benefits, like i have as a congressman, like every other federal worker has. if you don t want this account like what we have in congress, you don t have to take it. you can stay in the traditional program. according to trust trees and the congressional budget office, social security is permanently solvent. it is being used against republicans across the country. what they are trying to do is scare seniors by demagoguing and misleading them about these reforms to save the program. the seariest thing is doing nothing. the scariest thing is doing nothing. dog knowing means those people
because supreme court declared it was is a tax. the president wasn t dealing straight with the american people on the health care. they have to run from the fact that this slashes senior s care. it puts a board of independent unelected bureaucrats in charge of deciding what care seniors do and don t get. republicans will at some point have to step up and say not only do we have to move this wreckage from the highway after we defeat it but we have to leave it there. next on the rundown, how badly will the president flip flop on whether the individual mandate is a tax actually damage his reelection campaign? jeanine and leslie will weigh in. the justice department says it will not prosecute eric holder on [ male announcer ] wouldn t it be cool if we took the nissan altima and reimagined nearly everything in it? gave it greater horsepower and best in class 38 mpg highway.