dr. coburn, about some of the issues that are going to impact not just the patients through the payment mechanism but also their ability to even see a doctor under this medicare change. mr. coburn: the other thing that medicare recipients should recognize is under laws as previously said, the reimbursement for your physician in january is scheduled to decline 27%. when i talk to seniors in the state of oklahoma, one of the number-one problems that somebody turning 65 has is now finding a physician who will care for them under medicare payment guidelines. what was never spoke of was the fact that there was no fix in the health care bill for the very real need to attract more physicians into caring for seniors. and so as we have seen, congress may or may not fix that. it's $300 billion to fix that. that's the cost of it. whether we fix it or not. the fact is we're playing with the access of medicare patients to care, and denied access is denied care, and if you live in a community much like my community where no new doctors had been coming in because there is a shortage of primary care doctors, and

but tom coburn stands out. guest: dr. tom coburn is a great u.s. senator.would be a very good president. he has set himself more than once he is not going to be president. he will not run for president. naturally they do not want to stop what they are doing and go for someone else because they believe that they would be a good president and that they have a chance to win. let me say this, having been around this since 1976. every candidate has some baggage. no such thing as a candidate that does not have something in their bagram. it might be a political liability. we are all human and people who have been around and served in business or government may have incredibly good public records or they may have a flaw in the record. you can debate about governor romney's healthcare program in massachusetts. but there is a much -- there's much difference in the national plan. president obama had to negotiate that with democrats and he tried to peak -- it tried to pull people out of the emergency room to get them on an affordable insurance plan. only 8% of people i

but tom coburn stands out. guest: dr. tom coburn is a great u.s. senator. he would be a very good president. he has set himself more than once he is not going to be president. he will not run for president. naturally they do not want to stop what they are doing and go for someone else because they believe that they would be a good president and that they have a chance to win. let me say this, having been around this since 1976. every candidate has some baggage. no such thing as a candidate that does not have something in their bagram. it might be a political liability. we are all human and people who have been around and served in business or government may have incredibly good public records or they may have a flaw in the record. you can debate about governor romney's healthcare program in massachusetts. but there is a much -- there's much difference in the national plan. president obama had to negotiate that with democrats and he tried to peak -- it tried to pull people out of the emergency room to get them on an affordable insurance plan. only 8% of peop

dr. coburn are two of the best people i've known and great credits to the profession. i want to thank him for his work and this and other issues related to the president's health care law. he has been tire unless his careful analysis and criticism of the law and i believe we are in agreement on the bill's fundamental laws. the president and his allies promise that the health care law would decrease costs. that is not going to happen. the so-called affordable care act is going to in fact drive up the cost of coverage and among the biggest reasons for this inflationary impact are the taxes that will be imposed on the american people to pay for the loss of $2.6 trillion in new spending. at the top of the list is the law's tax on health insurance. it is not clear to me how the cost of health insurance will be increased by taxing it. many people don't know that this tax exist. like most of the taxes in obama care, its implementation was conveniently delayed until after the 2012 election, presidential election. but this tax is coming. it is going to hurt employers and employ