to make any official announcement here. i m going to continue my long-standing interest, bipartisan pro growth, you ve seen work with senator greig, coates, begich, medicare reform, tackling a chronic disease. this is an opportunity to show medicare in 2013 is very different than medicare in 1965. each of those will be bipartisan efforts and continuing long-standing work. exactly what happens. look forward to it. thanks very much. the new biographical film nelson mandela, long walk to freedom is teaching a history lesson in the classroom. we will fight for our freedom.
voters. and they absolutely will make determine the outcome of this one way or the other. jon: so much has been made of medicare, is that the big issue that brings seniors out to vote? i think absolutely, especially this year where you have democrats making this argument that paul ryan s budget, which was a tough reform budget that changed the calculus for how medicare money is spent and things like that, democrats are returning very hard against republicans including, you know, even though mitt romney had nothing to do with it, president obama has sort of hit mitt romney on the issue of supporting paul ryan s budget. on the other hand you have obamacare, which was very much funded by cutting $500 billion over ten years out of medicare payments in order to pay for obamacare. so we are going to hear a lot of
that in the coming months, the blaming back and forth about who has done more to sort of undermine or strip away medicare. jon: well, you argue in a newspaper column that democrats, and the obama administration have essentially launched a war on seniors. what do you mean by that? what is the justification? quite frankly, you know, the issue the issue of paul ryan s budget, it was a reform budget, it changed the way the calculus for how medicare is paid for, but it preserves it. the problem with obamacare not only does it raid $500 billion out of medicare over ten years, but it doesn t change, it doesn t fund today mentally make it more sound. it adds to it. twice now, once last year with the negotiations over raising the debt ceiling president obama made the strange threat that social security checks wouldn t go out if we didn t raise the
debt ceiling. well, of course, you know the president determines which checks go out and which checks don t go out if we run into a problem like that, and it was a very strange but very successful tactic, and it terrified republicans, it terrified seniors and they quickly raised the debt ceiling. quietly last week his lawyers petitioned the supreme court and said that after having sort of tried everything else said that if the supreme court overturns obamacare it s going to put all these burdens on making payments to medicare. it s just kind of a shocking tendency to keep going back and making these kind of threats that i don t know if they are valid or not, but it s kind of an alarming thing to always go back to that whenever you get yourself into a political bind. jon: something we ll keep an eye on as the election approaches. charlie hurt from the washington times. thank you. jenna: now to to west r-frplt
spending more money than we take in on medicare. self-funding. eelf-financing. n how medicare is going to be stabilize blizzed and made solvent. automatic trigger built into the law many decades ago. failed in each one of the years in office to provide that kind of plan. he is not going to do it. choice between somebody blindly going to leave the decisions up to unelected panel up to independent advisory board on how to ration health care for seniors in medicare or find a constructive. measures understand that. no er the course of a year long presidential campaign they will. it depends hot candidate is make health care a big part of