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hello, everyone. at this hour departure boards bringing post-christmas misery to travelers everywhere. one major u.s. carrier is the big source of a nationwide headache. plus, incoming congressman george santos says he should get a pass for lying about virtually every single detail of his resume because not telling the truth is not a crime. and new cnn exclusive reporting about why you ll pay less at the pump now, but should be preparing for more pain in the spring. this is what we re watching at this hour. we begin this hour with the blame game playing out at southwest airlines. thousands of stranded travelers just want to get where they are going but bad weather, bad planning and bad systems mean more than 25 hundred southwest flights grounded today so far. that s around 90% of all flights canceled in the u.s. southwest passengers can t get through to customer service and its employees are struggling to speak to the people in charge. it s just it s frustrating f ....
Forward to. i feel like they don t have a remedy for it. oh, we ll give you a voucher. a voucher doesn t replace that i need to be on, you know, on this going out at 4:00 this afternoon. i am traveling with my son trying to go to a family wedding in miami. the next flight offered was in january. and they couldn t even get us home, back to pittsburgh. financially this is going to take a toll. how much could you guys potentially miss out on if you don t get on your flight. probably 30 plus thousand dollars for a group of ten. we come here. they tell us our luggage is here but they can t give it to us. i said we have medication, we need it. we can t pull it. we don t have the manpower. i m beyond frustrated and hurt because i can t see my dad so, yeah, it s very disappointing. ....
Agreement our approach would deal with the medicare spending, the question was, how we deal bit, and the republican plan deals with it by putting all the risk of rising health care costs on seniors by giving them the equivalent of a voucher, but the voucher doesn t keep pace with rising health care costs and we take a different approach to reduce health care costs in the system by changing the incentives in medicare to try and focus more on quality of care and the value of care not just the volume of care which is what drives up the cost. neil: there are a lot of good includes on ways to fine tune this which is not crazy but here is where i draw a line between all the ideas, as the present health care plan stands assuming the supreme court lets it stand, we will assume that, but medicare will change, right, and it is going to be, you know, out a last money, as we step ....
Because all the rest will take the pledge no matter their history. i asked him the same question. i was out in indiana and did a profile of him. he said you know what, if it s the second or third option, i d be willing to do it. he s since come out in potential favor of the value-added tax, tax on gasoline as ways to sort of balance the budget and tack it will deficit and shows he s serious about it. frankly way too reasonable to get the republican nomination. doesn t have a chance. andrew romano, senior writer for newsweek, thanks for joining us tonight. thank you. coming up, there is one man standing in the way of republicans doing the right thing when it comes to taxes. he s in the rewrite. i realized i needed an aarp. medicare supplement insurance card, too. medicare is one of the great things about turning 65, but it doesn t cover everything. in fact, it only pays up to 80% of your part b expenses. if you re already on or eligible for medicare, call now to find out how ....
To turn medicare into a voucher program. it s estimated by the congressional budget office, which is anç independent, bipartisan sort of referee in congress that determines these things, they figure that seniors would end up paying twice as much for their health care as they are currently. northeast twice as much. and more importantly, it would get worse over time because health care inflation goes up a lot faster than regular inflation. so your health care costs keep on going up and up and up, the voucher doesn t. under the ryan republican bill, eligible americans would stop enrolling in medicare starting in 2022 and instead receive vouchers intended to only partially pay for insurance coverage that is not currently available to people over 65. ....