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With should look at what we can do in the out years so that these programs are more sustainable. those going on medicare, meaning people like myself i m going to be turning 50 in the next week. so i m starting to think a little bit more about medicare eligibility. yeah, i m going to get my aarp card soon and the discounts. congressman, medicare means testing. the president is for it. are you? no. but let me say this, chuck. medicare and there s been a lot of misunderstanding about this because part b of medicare, which is physician reimbursements, and part d, which is prescription drugs, are already means testing. in other words, the higher income, the more coinsurance you put in. that s current law. so if the president is saying, as part of a big deal, we can look at some of those things, ....
Put in. that s current law. so if the president is saying, as part of a big deal, we can look at some of those things, that s one thing. what happened is the republicans in the house totally pulled the rug out from under speaker boehner when he said, all right. we re going to get the president to make some changes possibly in medicare, maybe some other areas. but we ve got to close corporate tax loopholes. and his caucus said no way. now the current reaction is, unless you enact the republican budget plan, which ends the medicare guarantee, slashes medicaid, unless you do that, we re going to allow the u.s. to default on its debt obligations. they re right back in the corner, no compromise, which is where they started. so what you re saying is you would have accepted medicare means testing as part of a grand ....
That current beneficiaries, as much as possible, are not affected. with should look at what we can do in the out years so that these programs are more sustainable. those going on medicare, meaning people like myself i m going to be turning 50 in the next week. so i m starting to think a little bit more about medicare eligibility. yeah, i m going to get my aarp card soon and the discounts. congressman, medicare means testing. the president is for it. are you? no. but let me say this, chuck. medicare and there s been a lot of misunderstanding about this because part b of medicare, which is physician reimbursements, and part d, which is prescription drugs, are already means testing. in other words, the higher income, the more coinsurance you ....