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as you mentioned, i serve on the ways and means committee. we generated a bill that provides to pay for so many services in this bill that are now being reduced or eliminated in the broader build back better bill. it s using general revenue from other source s to finance this coverage. we re talking about roughly $70 billion over a decade to provide basic vision and hearing coverage. i do think there s a problem with the voucher approach, and that s the one area that i have some disagreement with senator sanders on. we ve a posed voucherizing medicare for years. and i think our focus should be on what basic relief we can provide now on a permanent basis and perhaps do the other at another time. when it comes to other sources of funding, as we mentioned, you re on ways and means, chairman richard neil saying overnight he wasn t sure this plan attacks billionaires, ....
Program. the voucher approach. what s the pushback on those. the argument from the left and union leaders and folks like matt damon is, we need to invest more in public schools. always about more money and less accountability is what it feels like, and they re offer very explicit about that. the fact is holding schools accountable is part of making them work and times you have to give kids a ticket elsewhere so schools realize shy be serving this kid. if that happens through charter schools, that s fine. that s a form of public schools that can be held combattability combatable. i fine if interesting shen the left say we have to invest in book schools and then put their own children in private schools. i heard matt damon said the public school system in l.a. was not progressive enough for him. there is a more progressive group on the planet? i m not sure that would be my worry. frankly, i heard from readers, if you look around at any public school system, you will find ....