we ve seen congressman roe tell us this is what they re going to do on repeal. we ve heard the democratic response to repeal will be. isolating specific pieces of the bill, some of which are very popular, that congressman roe will be voting to repeal. for example, the advantage to seniors on prescription drugs that s built into the medicare provisions of this bill. the pre-existing conditions, many other popular elements in the bill. every republican it sounds like in the house will vote to repeal those things. what do you expect the democrats to be able to do with those votes when they take them into the next congressional campaign? well, they definitely will be able to hold republicans accountable. this is really a kind of a first moment for democrats to show that they can do what republicans did so well the last couple of years, which is stay unified on an important vote. i m glad that mark brought up the will of the people because there s a big associated press
sense. the real questions is will the leadership propose real problems. the cost of health care is a legitimate problem. republicans and democrats have responsibility to address it. but create space where you can work together to make progress or will it just be a political dag tore the heart of the progress we ve made for the middle class? congressman roe, you mentioned that everyone agrees on, health care is too expensive, but yet in repealing the health care reform law that passed you would be repealing provisions that make health care dramatically less expensive for people including people on medicare through the prescription drug benefit specifically as well as other provisions of that law. how will you answer your constituents back home when they say, you voted to make my prescription drugs more expensive? let me lawrence, let s look at the history of medicare and the history of ten care, the history of medicare when there was no cvo, there was a 3
today over 400 billion. we re talking about what we re giving to senior. what we haven t talked about is what we re taking away. let s look at the demographics of the country. i m a boomer. we re going to have 3 million people add each year for the next 20 years. 35, 36 million people. and we re taking out of medicare, medicare advantage, 135 or so billion, we re taking 5 billion out of an underfunded plan already. i hope we have time later to talk about the ipad which i intend to repeal. we haven t done anything to help control the costs in this bill and that s one of my major concern. that s why it has to be repealed, takes the parts we, work together and work together. going back to the president s return from hawaii and his optimism. it could be that it s because his approval rating is up, up to 50%p. this is in the wake of
wealthy instead of cutting social security and we ll let the chips fall where they may. what we d like from you, congressman, in addition to working with us on this poll is to pledge today to follow the will of your constituents. if they support more regulation of wall street, to say that you be able to buck republican party leaders on issues like this and vote the will of your constituents. are you up to that? you want to bring a public option to tennessee, we ve already tried that. beginning back in 1993 we had a plan called ten care where we d compete against different options and plans. our spending on medicare which was ten care went from 2.6 billion to $8 billion in ten budget years. almost broke the state of tennessee. so our governor, who is a democrat, phil bretterson opposes this government takeover of health care, which is what it is going to be. we can talk about that in a little bit having tremendous
billion program. in 25 years this would be a 15 billion program. it was over 100 billion. today over 400 billion. we re talking about what we re giving to senior. what we haven t talked about is what we re taking away. let s look at the demographics of the country. i m a boomer. we re going to have 3 million people add each year for the next 20 years. 35, 36 million people. and we re taking out of medicare, medicare advantage, 135 or so billion, we re taking 5 billion out of an underfunded plan already. i hope we have time later to talk about the ipad which i intend to repeal. we haven t done anything to help control the costs in this bill and that s one of my major concern. that s why it has to be repealed, takes the parts we, work together and work together. going back to the president s return from hawaii and his optimism. it could be that it s because