aarp supports.g effort to debunk the myths and provide accurate information for you and for our members that are on the phones and on the web. i want to make it clear that aarp has not endorsed any particular bill, any of the bills, that are being circulated around congress today and debated in congress today. we continue to work with the members on both sides of the aisle, and we continue to work with the administration to achieve what is right for health care reform. today, we want to hear from you. your stories, your concerns, your dreams, tell us about the challenges that you face, whether or not it's falling into the infamous doughnut hole on medicare part "b" or it's being denied coverage because of pre-existing conditions. what we believe in aarp is that all americans should have affordable health care choices, but our current system costs too much. it wastes too much. it makes too many mistakes, and it gives us too little of the value of our dollar back. and as troubling as that sounds, if w

>> it will be streamlined on the aarp website. that were sent in from aarp members. there will be an aarp moderator asking questions to the president. you will have the opportunity to watch it on mine if you are so inclined. megyn: thank you, like the menu at the white house. bill: the chairman of the house judiciary committee responding to criticism that congress is moving so fast on proposals so complex that lawmakers do not have time to read the legislation. here's what he said. >> i want these members to g et up and say read the bill. what good is reading the bill if it is 1000 pages and you do not have two days and two lawyers to find out what it means after you read the bill? bill: at the white house, president obama not following through on his promise to post bills online for five days before signing them into law. the white house only making preliminary bills public before they go for a vote on the hill. megyn: what is the point of reading the bill when it is so long? who has time for that? bill: cookouts and campaigning.

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martha: they are giving some introductions here at this aarp event. the president will be taking questions from people about the health care reform bill that he wants to see passed. let me bring in the panel as we wait for the action to get started. tucker carlson is with us in washington from the cato institute. kirsten powers is here in new york with me of the "new york post." when the question comes up, i thought we burgoyne to insure the uninsured, where is the public option, what is the president going to say? >> probably something like we are still working on the details. they have said that they are willing to go ahead without a public auction. i think obama always suspected that this was the case. i remember him being lukewarm about it, then he got pressure from the left and said that he would try to have said. i think he may try to come up with something watered down and passed it off as something big. martha: perhaps a signing ceremony, we passed insurance reform. at least it sounds like we are going in the right direction. of course, one of

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aarp. after that, members of the u.s. house talk about changes to the health care system. >> on tomorrow morning's washington journal, we will focus on health care legislation. our first guest is jack the kucinich. after that, we will stick with congressman roy blunt. and then it will be house democrat franklin alo pallone. washington journal begins each morning at 7:00 a.m. eastern with your calls in the day's news here on c-span. now, president obama takes questions on health care from members of aarp, an advocacy group for older people. this is about an hour. >> we are joined today by barack obama. we also have been any chin hansen. anytime you want to as the question to the president or the other panelists, telstar 3 on your phone. -- dial *3 on your phone. let's hear from jennie chin hanson. [applause] >> thank you, mike. mr. president, it is wonderful they could join us for this meeting. i recognize that there is no greater priority than reforming our health care system. many of the s

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alisyn: have you been an aarp meeting for 15 years. to become disgruntled with them and named danny glover astin of the year, man of the year after he hugged castro and said that george bush was a nonentity and that -- alisyn: that was the first thing that upset you because you felt that aarp was becoming too liberal. now, what is it specifically about the president's health care plan that you think will leave seniors like yourself out in the cold? >> well, it doesn't seem to me like seniors are their priority anymore. especially senior veterans and veterans with disabilities. because it seems like i keep hearing the sayings that they are going to charge us for our health care and charge us for our medicare. and most veterans that are retired like myself can't afford to pay any other benefits out. alisyn: well, the president says that those things are not true, that you are worried about. in fact, he went to the aarp headquarters just this week and tried to console some people like yourself who are worried. let's take a listen to what

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. >>> guess what will be in the mail next week the aarp, the magazine. you should be receiving it and guess who is on the cover, bruce springsteen, turning 64. but there an article in the magazine that we want to talk about today with gabby, the editorial protect -- projects manager of the magazine and he says we aren't getting enough of the sunshine vitamin. >> we aren't. you know, for many years doctors knew we needed vitamin d for our bones but now they find we need it for other tissues and organs and are not getting enough sunshine. that's how your body produces vitamin d and we have been told for years to cover up to avoid skin cancer and now they are finding out we are not getting enough. >> reporter: what is it contributing to? what illness? >> they are finding out new things every day but cancer heart disease, weak bones, all kinds of things can happen if are you don't get enough vitamin d. >> how much sunshine do you need each day. >> not too much. you don't want to go out and bake in the sun but 10 to 15 minutes a day and then you can go ahead

he is meeting sp aarp today. burkhart is in washington with the latest. >> -- he is meeting with aarp today. brooke hart is in washington with the latest. >> drugmakers big lobby is demanding action. monday are in agreement with an advertisement that is not talking about slowing down the reform efforts. >> the latest compromise would drop a requirement that employers offer health coverage. it would tax insurers for top of the line plans and take the government out of the public plan making it a non-profit co- op. that could lead to some gop support. negotiators predict the plan's final cost would be under $1 trillion. but some critics worry. >> what concerns me about this plan is washington's history of underestimating costs of expensive plants like this. >> no agreement in no vote is planned. . cbo says the public option would not drive private insurers out of business. president obama will highlight that in his events today and tomorrow. >> state medical and educational leaders are making sure they are ready fo

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. >> answering calls from senior at an aarp town hall meeting, the president was asked about a healthcare reform bill being considered in the house. >> i have been told there is a policy in there that everyone that is medicare age will be visited and told to decide how they wish to die. >> aarp moderators suggested it is a well-known misperception and identified it by page. >> the infamous page 425. >> president obama was reassuring. >> nobody will force you to make a set of decisions on e.n.d. of life care based on some bureaucratic law in washington. >> aides ak nom it is a sensitive issue, a quarter of all medicare spending takes place in the patient's final year of life and most people facing a terminal illness or old age prefer less intervention to more. that suggests the potential for savings. the house bill would allow medicare to pay for counseling on end-of-life issues but doesn't require them, and lawmakers say it is a good thing but do it early. >> think about it when you're 50 instead of when you're 85, what sort of care do you want? >> when the bush administration expanded me

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>> i'm shock at the aarp's behavior. to me they've betrayed seniors i'm amazed seniors continue to pay their dues. seniors have so much to lose under this. one of the other things very dangerous to seniors in this legislation is the dramatic shift in funding for -- away from specialty medicine to primary care. on the misconception that americans over use especiallies and drive up health cores in the process. stud -- study after study shows people with heart disease who rely on primary care medicine are frequently misdiagnosed. >> cardiologists are better at heart care. >> that's right. they are readmitted to the hospital more often and die sooner. >> thank you. much more when we come back the house and senate health care plans up close. what exactly is in the proposed legislation? how do they plan to pay for it? our panel breaks it down and answsw, crest whitestrips has created a revolutionary strip that sticks to your teeth so well you can even drink water with it on. new crest whitestrips advanced seal. get a dramatica

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he's visiting with the aarp for an electronic town meeting. president will face questions about his health care plan and it's a similar story on capitol hill. republicans say the price tag is too big but a bipartisan group in the senate mighting clo inbe a compromise dropping a key priority requiring large businesses to offer workers coverage and there wouldn't be a government insurance option either. >>> positive news for home sales spurred modest gains on wall street. courtney reagan joins us live. >> reporter: right now futures are slightly lower on wall street following mild trading that resulted in mild gains yesterday. a mixed bag of economic and earnings report that kept gains in check. asian markets did close higher overnight. there are unfortunately red arrows in europe this morning. investors will get a double dose of economic data this morning for trading, consumer confidence and the home index which measures prices in major 20 metro areas coming out today. e dow is at 9108. >>> older americans are rack up credit card more than any

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