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Democrats want them to. tom cole was on, as well, saying a similar thing. it is interesting to go through a campaign and republicans were harping on the fact that we supposedly cut $716 billion out of medicare and now they want to make cuts to medicare and other entitlements part of the equation to get anything agreed to. we need to reform our social insurance system, particularly in medicare. we did that in the affordable care act and people forget the significant changes of medicare in that law and we ought to be content to let some of those actually play themselves out before we start messing around with something that s so important to 50 million americans. i believe you ve pointed out in the past the cuts that were made with medicare are the same cuts that the president was attacked for during the election. exactly. these are savings, about a third of which were reducing the subsidy for insurance companies providing medicare advantage ....
Would not ignore somethingç formal of morsi himself and this may be a breakthrough. back to you. jim, thank you. up next, citigroup makes a big announcement. the company is cutting more than 10,000 jobs worldwide. we ll have more details. and our stories around the news nation. [ male announcer ] if you re eligible for medicare, now is a good time to think about your options. are you looking for a plan that really meets your needs and your budget? as you probably know, medicare only covers about 80% of your part b medical expenses. the rest is up to you. ....
Don t get the tax break on the first $250,000 and don t pay a dime more to contribute to the fiscal challenges facing our country, and so, that s a real problem. we need them to say that but there are the idea to embrace dealing with the splitting this up here? we have other work to do. the alternative minimum tax for millions of americans, it s not intended for, so we have to deal with that before january 1st. we have a cut of physicians pay under medicare and risk a medicare accessibility for seniors in the country. we have to deal with that and responsibly and set us on a new path for paying doctors in the right way to incentivize quality and contain costs and get people the care. what would you like to see in the immediate future as we are days away. i know you said it s been a couple of days but dealing with i believe 27 days, every one matters. we ought to be seriously talking to each other about a balanced approach, revenues and the spending cuts we have committed to ....
Best thingç to do is make very clear decisions in the next few weeks, make sure we protect the middle class and make sure we move directly on medicare and protecting that, as well. and then and a few other things we ought to do before the end of the year. help create that certainty for the middle class americans and the investor community and then ñ-0gy very short window to tackle broader tax reform, making sure that we have the resources we need to protect medicare and that we deal with it, the deficit devastation for a long term and nothing to hurt the growth for the future. thank you so much for your time. we greatly appreciate it. and we have some developing news to report to you out of cairo, egypt. officials say at least 60 people have been injured in violent clashes in the past few hours outside the presidential palace. there are reports two people are killed but authorities deny it. tens of thousands of demonstrators at the palace and ....
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