they cut hundreds of billions out of medicaid and medicare to pay for. republicans are attacking them for cutting the waste down. >> john, are they singling out this group again to get the vote? is it all about getting the >> yeah it is all about getting the vote. they are having a great debate trying to figure out the bravest frenchman right now. figuring out the most responsible politician between these two parties this is decades in the making. what julian and wayne said is correct this has happened for decades we've passed the buck to future generations. seniors are mad. look at these town halls going on around the country. the problem is they can't did anything about it social at security has eradicateed property for seniors. the problem is the money is not there. i -- i am going to offer solutions, balance the tpubt budget. forget this stimulus bills and bailouts, balance the budget and that involves social security. >> wayne they are being silent this week. we have not heard anything from these groups yet, you think they are going to stand up and

over $1 billion is being spent in the data every year on medicaid. we do not do it as far as we could. that leads to reimbursements being reduced and burdens on senior citizens. my budget proposal talks about how we change that. we need to eliminate the waste, fraud, and abuse. we need more managed care. when the to focus on things that will make people's lives better but will be less expensive. the data has more long-term care per capita than any other state in the country. if we move to adult care, we will save money and have a better quality of life for our people. that is the kind of smart solution my budget is full of. it is on my website for everybody to read. >> the question has to do with the public employee's benefit system and health care for state employees. our public employees that this board recently made a decision that will save our state $120 million. it was a tough decision. it does some of the things we talked about. it increases the copiague. it makes it a little more challenging. that is what we have to come back to. we are in a

a third of them were poor and were eligible for medicaid, but not receiving medicaid because they weren't going down and filling out the appropriate paperwork. a third of them were in the country illegal and were illegal aliens. i don't think we should give illegal aliens health insurance. that's what president obama's bill does. >> chris: no, no, no. that's not true, sir. they're not covered by obama care. >> it's illegal to ask them if they're illegal so it's a catch-22. the republicans kept introducing an amendment to obama care to say you can ask if they're illegal aliens and the democrats kept shooting it down saying no, you can't ask if they're illegal. >> chris: attorney general conway, you support it, president obama's healthcare plan. premiums are going up. according to studies, millions of americans won't be able to keep their coverage. spending, total national spending according to studies is projected to go up $300 billion in the next decade. that's fixing the problem? >> not necessarily. i think the bill needs to be improved upon. that is a key difference between myself and r

it is important us to to have the other provision on medicaid. we as states cannot afford this. we are being compelled to do something we can't get out of. we are pleased both are going forward. clearly, the individual mandate is the issue that the supreme court ultimately will decide this case on. maybe on both points. certainly on that one. i think favorably to news a close decision. probably in i guess 2012. growth farther ahead state of florida, state of virginia, monday argument on the summary judgment we are going to go down and watch. attorney general cuccinelli will join us monday. both lawsuits are fascinating. michigan a lawsuit decided it the other way. we are monitoring all of these. certainly is going to have an enormous impact on each one of us. attorney general, thank you. >> thank you, appreciate it, great day. >> greta: next, senator licensee graham is here. he has a fight on his -- senator lindsey graham is here. has a fight on his hands. speaking of fights. this tops it all. did you hear who is trying to take on arizona governor brewer? 11 latin american count

medicaid will be the singer payer system. >> i'm going to stand up for mcdonald's because it is better than no health care. at last they had a plan. a lot of these small fast order places don't have any. small companies come up with innovative solutions they are not the best but it is better than nothing or better than the taxpayer footing all the bill. >> reason why i'm saying the intense of the obamacare was to move people to the government is because of requirements for all the types of things that had to be included in health care for younger people don't need a -- a lot of the proceed there's older people need that's a big problem with obamacare. that has been tried, massachusetts, europe, it has had the same effect. it didn't have to be tried nationally in the united states, all we had to look at every place else it was tried the government costs exploded. >> be honest neil weinberg. you know people in congress have said they like single payer and the reason why they went for this was it would lead to a single payer plan. don't you any in the back of the mind he still is? >> i th

and so the senator has carried a bill that will enable us, if someone has medicaid, to use those medicaid dollars to increase the number of in-home hours that person has so that we can use those federal dollars instead of hospitalization, instead of long-term care here, in the home. our goal is that the person always has the choice as to what is the best setting for them. with that, should we do it all together? >> i have a resolution. this is my district. senator leno is an interloper. it is ok, because he is going to bring us a lot of money. together, we want to make this presentation to the executive director, the new head of laguna honda. i have known her for years. she is small in size, but she carries a wallop. thank you very much. [applause] >> good afternoon, everybody. it is not often you get to say the words "your tax dollars at work" with a smiling face, but san francisco is smiling today. [applause] supervise a eslbernd call me months ago to find out when the ribbon cutting would be, knowing the pride celebration was coming. he wanted to make sure there was a cycle of other ac

in 1965, under johnson, was health care, medicare and medicaid. ok. if you go back and look as social security, if i read things correctly, 35% of the people who retire live on social security. is that correct? >> primarily. 22% of americans rely on social security exclusively, and it was never intended to be that way, but that is the way it is. >> in the boat, the chapter heading, save social security. how're you going to save it, because you have all this money obligated to pay lots of folks were long time to come? >> the good news is, social security, in basketball terms, is a lay up. you can miss it, but it is a pretty high percentage shot. we can exceed the expectations for every generation. for people right out of retirement, you'll make little to no changes because they do not have time to make adjustments. the younger york, the better off you are financially, the more you'll be affected. gradually increase in normal and early-retirement age and the index of the life expectancies, gradually. we will strengthen the benefit for people near the po

in medicaid, for instance -- we expanded medicaid in 2007. we did so in a way that almost doubled the number of people involved in medicaid. it doubled our expenses. we did this unilaterally. we made that decision through the legislative process and also through something called the tobacco tax referendum or initiative. we have to unwind that. we have to look at that. that is where the money is. it is in medicaid in colorado and in the education arena. we have to look at things like pera. we may have to change the structure. it is where all the money is and where it will go. >> thank you. mr. mayor? >> i have done this in the restaurant business and for the city of denver. we have had eight budgets at the city, seven of them deficit budgets. it is not fun. we try to bring business principles to the process to make sure we're doing the right thing. there's a lot of redundancy that we could find a number of savings by centralizing -- technology services, a human- resources. we have done that in the city and save the significant jobs. so many ba

but not receiving medicaid because they were not going down and filling out the paperwork. but, a third of them were in the country illegally and were illegal aliens and we shouldn't give them health insurance and that is what president obama's bill does. >> chris: no, no, that is not true, sure, they are not covered by obamacare. >> but it is illegal to and if they are illegal and the thing is, it is a "catch-22," they said the republicans kept introducing an amendment to obamacare to say, you can ask if they are illegal aliens and democrats september shooting it down, saying no you can't -- >> i want to bring the attorney general in here. you support it. president obama's health care reform plan. now premiums are going up, according to studies, millions of americans won't be able to keep their coverage and spending, total national spending, according to studies is projected to go up $300 billion over the next decade, that is fixing the problem. >> not necessarily, it needs to be improved upon and, that is the difference between myself and rand. i want to try and improve u

. >>> the economy putting a big strain on medicaid.ecord 6 million people signed up for medicaid since the start of the recession in late 2007. the biggest influx of dependence since it came into play in the 60s. there are now more than 38 million people on medicaid. and it's expected to get worse next year with states forecasting a 6% increase in applications for medicaid next year. >>> the proposed 2-cent hike on stamps shut down today by the postal service. they voted no to the u.s. postal services request to increase stamp prices to 46 cents. the u.s. postal service lost $4.6 billion last year. the request was designed to help with the financial crisis. some organizations say the post office should reduce their operating costs before raising prices again. >>> those tv commercials you say are too loud compared to the programming appear to come to an end. they have passed legislation to keep the commercials at the same volume as the programs. viewers have been complaining since the 50s that the commercials are pumped up too loud. now

ruled that the states can challenge the requirement that people obtain health insurance and that medicaid funding be expanded. florida's attorney general called the ruling the first step to have individual mandate declared constitutional and upholding state sovereignty. but a federal judge ruled that they can require people to acquire health insurance and it doesn't block implementation of the law, though the court fight will continue. in a simulcast town hal meeting, president obama tried to rally the youth base that made a difference for him in 2008. with polls showing a 30-point spread for young people and those over 30 who will vote, the democratic congressional count on the youth vote and some say obama may have less support in 2012. >> if the economy doesn't improve, why should we vote you back in? >> the "new york times" sunday magazine published on the web, said president's aides are talking about obama 2.0 in two years with more republicans in congress. the aides are less confident than hopeful. >> one party alone will not solve the problems or reform the immigration law. >> repo

state statistics show medicaid births at 37% in 2009 and the disabled also qualify for medicaid. but the underlying message strikes a chord. >> our country has gotten very out of whack. as you can imagine, i feel as a business owner, we create wealth, as opposed to being on the dole, where they have to confiscate money from those who produce wealth like myself and then redistribute it to other people. >> reporter: among conway's challenges: raising questions about paul without appearing to attack kentucky voters. >> look, i don't disparage the tea party. a lot of people talk about the tea party. the tea party is an expression of americans concern about spending. and i think that's legitimate. i think that's legitimate. i don't think rand paul's candidacy is legitimate when he comes out and says the things he does. >> reporter: as the polls have tightened, national democrats have begun pitching in to pay for ads that depict paul as the outsider. >> rand paul may get around but he doesn't get kentucky. e democratic senatorial campaign committee is responsible for the content of thi

medicaid is much more controversial. this reform dramatically expands medicaid, really changes in its face. and there will probably be people who want to go back to eat older medicaid. medicaid has always been in the past about the deserving poor, women having children, disabled people. it applies not to all the poor. once people start to figure out that the guy who hangs around the pool hall, the ne'er do well cannot hold a job now has better health care than they do, there will be some political backlash. host: in your book you talk about the human factor, or the dehumanizing factor. guest: i am a little out of step with my party on this. i think the whole notion of making so many things dependent on going down to the welfare office with all your assets and then come, and this blame yourself to the world -- i just don't like the whole, don't like it. one of the things i talk a lot about with social security is that is more dignified. if you make less income, you pay less. it is automatic. you don't have to go down and

, the -- expansion of the medicaid and elements upheld, the attorneys general made a plausible case it'sa constitutional. that is a strong statement. i think it will carry it all the way until it reaches the supreme court. without any doubt. >> bret: does it play differently politically? healthcare is a big issue, juan, already, across the country with 65% in polls, many of them saying it should be repealed. does this ruling soup that up? >> no. i think everybody anticipated it will end up in the supreme court. last week a michigan ruling upholding the right they mandate everyone has insurance under the healthcare insurance reform plan. but you have a situation where the political pressure, the legal pressures are going to put it in front of the supreme court and we'll see what happens. if you were a betting man, people in the insurance business right now, pharmaceuticals, this law will be upheld. >> bret: last word. >> i think it does help in the court of public opinion. this is a way they want to challenge the law. the more that it's brought up legislatively in the court, more likely i

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there are those in the medicaid system -- it throws the cost of the private insurers and they have to drive up their rates. that is not good for connecticut. it would kill jobs here in connecticut. >> my opponent ignores the fact that insurance rates for health insurance have gone up routinely each and every year for the last quarter years. they went up over 20% last year. that is why we need to change directions. with respect to the question, i did not -- -- renegotiate contracts and a limited amount the -- the amount of money. it is designed to protect children and make sure that they have access to health care. as i was walking in today, a journal manhandled me a note. i hope it does not mind. he said, mr. mayor, soon to be the next governor, i thought you should know that i have health insurance once again. i lost it because premiums were too costly, $4,883. i have just learned -- and that only covered hospitalization. now will have pulled coverage because of health care reform. i will not give you his name but this is the big difference between my opponent and myself. i did not b

how will you pay the bills if you will not raise taxes or cut education or medicaid? >> what is most important is that we have a zero growth budget. the stake arabic cannot afford to continue to grow the state budget at the rate -- the state budget cannot afford to -- the state cannot afford to continue to grow the state budget at this same right. we need to cut back on spending. when you talk about tax loopholes for out-of-state corporations, that is another word for increasing taxes. you and i have made a commitment not to raise taxes. to close a loophole, that is what you are doing is raising taxes. we cannot afford to do that if we are going to improve economically in the state of new mexico. we have to get rid of the executive positions that have gone as high as 600 positions many of which are over $100,000 salaries. if we cut back those positions close to what we had during the johnson administration, we could save $10 million. that should have been done long ago under this administration and it did not take place. you talk about the economy being a global econo

a third were are poor and eligible for medicaid but not receiving medicaid because they were not filling out the paper work. a third were illegal aliens. i don't think we should be giving illegal aliens healthcare and what is what obama care. >> chris: no, that is not true. >> it says you can ask if they are illegal i wills and the democrats kept shooting it down. >> chris: attorney general conway, you support the healthcare plan but now premiums are going up. according to studies millions of americans won't be able to keep their coverage and spending, total national spending according to studies is projected to go up $300 billion the next decade. that is fixing the problem? >> not necessarily. i think the bill needs to be improved upon. that is a key difference between myself and rand. i talked about 200 billion north dakota savings from medicare bulk purchasing. find ways to control costs. preexisting conditions. people shouldn't be denied because they have a preexisting condition 19,000 kentucky kids staying on insurance as a result of changes to the law. 45,000 small businesses getti

over $1 billion is spent in nevada every year on medicaid. and we just don't do it as smart as we could. and that leads to reimbursements being reduced and burdens being increased particularly for senior citizens. my budget proposal talks about what we must do to change that. we need to eliminate the waste, fraud and abuse. we need more managed care and we need to focus on things that will make people's lives better but be less expensive. for example, nevada has more long-term care per capita than any state in the country, we have more people in nursing homes than anywhere in the country. if we move to adult daycare as my plan proposes, we could save money and have greater quality of life for our people. that kind of smart solution my budget is full of. it's not a fantasy, brian, it's there in black and white on my website for everybody to read. >> mr. sandoval? >> i think first you have to respond to the question. the question has to do with the public employees benefit system and health care for state employees. our public employees benefit

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i want to get back to what you said, $465 million medicaid program. i ran the medicaid program. is $1.5 billion. this is the problem with state government. we need a governor that can look at the budget and make the cuts needed. we need them to do resources, contracts, and the citizens are demanding leadership. fiscal responsibility, governor. that is what we need. i have worked for three state department and i can make cuts without downshifting to towns and cities without increasing property taxes. >> the next question goes to john stephen. >> changes in state's budget often forces county school districts to make choices on spending. let's talk about your home town. the think manchester can tighten its belt further without reducing services without raising property taxes? >> i believe that everywhere we can be more efficient in administrative costs and may be looking at energy, the way we purchase goods and services. and the that we do agree to of -- a great job to educate our schoolchildren. what is going to happen in regard to the next funding? the governor hasn't told them w

i want to t back to what you said, $465 miion medicaid program. i ran the medicaid program.it is $1.5 billion. this is the problem with state government. we need a governor that can look at the budget and make theuts needed. we need them to do resources, contracts, and the citizens are demanding leadership. fiscal responsibility, governor. that is what we need. i have worked for three state department and i can make cuts without downshifting to towns and cities without increasing property taxes >> the next question goeso john stephen. >> changes in stat's budget often forces county school districts to make choices on spending. let's talk about your home town. the think manchester can tighten its belt further without reducing services without raising property taxes? >> i believe tt everywhere we can be more efficient in admistrative costs and may be looking at energy, the way we puhase goods and services. and the that we do agree to of -- a great job to educate our schoolchildren. what is going to happen in regard to the next funding? the governor hasn't told them whether or

for it, either your employer or if you go to a public hospital, the government, or if you get on medicaid or medicare, the states. so if everything you do with respect to health care affects the economy in some way. how, he concedes an individual human being, a solitary american, making a decision to buy or not to buy health care, has zero effect on the national economy. but if you add up all the people that decide not to buy health care, that number in the aggregate would affect the national economy and congress can regulate it. that's his theory. a very expansive theory of the commerce clause of the constitution which basically says congress can raeg late -- regulate any activity which when added up alongside of similar activities would have an effect on interstate commerce. martha, he did that without ever specifically addressing the issue of whether or not congress can force you to purchase health care. martha: indeed. which is the essential question for strict constitutionalists, right? >> exactly. sort people who lost here are actually rejoicing because they have a built-in issue on

it helps people who depend on medicaid and it saves taxpayers money. >> medicaid was in total disaster in 1990. it was wasteful. we are doing it right now. we are saving money. we are making sure is good care. we need to make sure that those that receive care get decent care. i have a program that i think we should abolish switches a legislative program that lets legislators give out scholarships, not to the needy or to people with the ability to go to college but not the money, but can give it to anybody, including campaign contributors. i am against that program. i help save our scholarship program. he wants to cut it. >> no, no. i sponsor the scholarship program for you have been governor for two years. either you do not have the power of-the power to abolish it, or you do not want to. -- the power to abolish it, or you do not want to. >> let's talk about a couple of other things. please allow me to moderate my own debate. >> this is a form. -- a forum. >> how have you cut back on your personal finances? >> in 2006, we had 150 realtors and were building over 200 homes and because of

y maría depende del medicaid. a raíz de recortes. no les alcanza.na larga lista de preocupación. se dedica a limpiar oficina zinhasy les recortaron los días de trabajo. >>> su esposo es cocinero en un restaurante. y la mala situación económica del país, los deje sin trabajo les disminuyeron las horas. >>> si se queda sin trabajo, cómo vamos a subsistir la situación económica. afecte la educación de su hija. . >>> estoy en una escuela técnica. de médico o secretaria para negocios >>>mary: se espera que las próxima elecciones los políticos elegidos se enfoquen en temas que realmente afectan sus vidas. la creación de más empleos y un seguro médico abs kibls. >>> están quitando horas hay que pagar la comida, él tiene que pagar el abogado. son muchas las cosas. >>> la verdad que es mucho para ella. además el esfuerzo de eva, es legalizar su situación en este país. para eso paga una abogado de enami graer de inmigración. lo que debe ser prioridad para los candidatos que luchen por el voto hispano. >>> gracias r >>>vanessa: una preocupación de mucha famili

in because if the wall street journal is right they think touching social security or medicare or medicaid would be wrong. what is right? going after tax breaks, like deductions for mortgage and. so, grandmother is safe, but are you? to the parent who says don't count on it this is not curving the government beef but finding more ways to feed it. and with the patriots, the founder of tea party 365, i think with all respect, you have been dunked and punched. how do you feel? >>guest: well, i feel bad. the american people need to finally wake up and face the music, the time is now. this country is going down. and the tea party, it is the problem with the two parties, the two party system is trying to rean the chairs on the titanic and saying "be calm," and the music is playing on because help is coming soon and that is not the case. help is not coming. the government should leave us alone. it is simple: decrease spending, decrease the costs, leave our tax, do not raise taxes on the american people. >>neil: but the debt commission, and the devil is in the final details in the final report due

medicaid, 35 percent higher. by the way, that's got nowhere to go but up when health care reform kicks in. medicare, up 15 percent. it consumes $450 billion, each and every year. you're up 21 percent in two years, those are the two obama years. now, you can call this a response to the recession, you can call this the cost of reshaping america, you can call it both, but it is a huge increase in government spending over the last two years. martha: and it falls into two categories, paying unemployment benefits, which that number is no surprise to anybody, we're at 9.6% in this country and all those unemployment benefits keep being extended and extended and extended, then you've got the health care money on the other side of that equation. >> yes. as i said, watch medicaid because when health care reform kicks in, tens of millions of people will be kicked into medicaid, so the expenditures on that will go up, indeed, through the roof, much more than the 35 percent we've already seen in the last two years. let me draw

for medicare and medicaid. health care inflation is four times more than regular inflation. >> extending the bush tax cuts? >> absolutely, yes. >> that is a big expenditure. >> $700 billion. over 10 years. the current spending money opponent has advocated for, right now the devil budget over the same time its 31.9 trillion. let's put $700 billion in context of that. >> i want you to pay for the $700 billion? >> i would start with $270 billion for stimulus funds. million that $30 billio folks in the private sector are not receiving. it's not saying not to sund core government functions, in sync with the government overspending. 1.2 trillion dollars on the health care bill that no one believes is not going to add to the deficit. >> middle-class incomes when adjusted for inflation have declined 5% in the last decade. middle-class needs tax help as well as small businesses. i will allow the top two brackets tax cuts to expire. if politicians were subject to a chapter 11, the republican advocacy for bush tax cuts wo

it was no longer consistent with any medicare or medicaid rules. we were the only facility left in the country running open wards. we were told we would not be allowed any longer by both the federal and state authorities. it was a place where, while the care was wonderful, the building did not fit any modern earthquake standards. where privacy was insufficient to support human dignity. where people did not have a place to store their stuff. where people did not have a window to look out on. where we had to have wards that had closing doors because there was not that easy access to the outside. here we had a

alternative that we have in south dakota this year, well, she's a tea party candidate who supports medicaid and medicare and social security but not obama care. and the differences are, you know, her 30-second tv commercials about how government health care is bad. yet, you know, she supports unbelieveably huge health care programs and as a 23-year-old voter i just feel very confused, very lied to. host: are you leaning towards stephanie herseth sand lynn or chris teen known? >> host: i'm leaning toward the independent honestly. i liked darble. the first year i ever voted was 2004 and i turned 18 that year, and i liked senator daschle. for south dakota. and he lost in a very close race here. host: thanks for the call. we'll continue to have our live coverage during the course of the day, the president in cleveland, ohio, the alaska senate debate. a rebro cast of a debate. and in a moment the one and only debate in the senate nevada race. a race that is viewed as still a toss-up two days before the elections. and of course determining whether or not harry reid comes back as the democratic le

>>> federal authorities say they've taken down an armenian/american fraud scam allegedly billing medicaid for 60 million in treatments that were never again. prosecutors charged 73 people across the country, mostly in w york and los angeles. >>> and nasa's hubble space telescope has captured what scientists believe are the first images of a collision between two asteroids. timgs taken earlier this year show a bizarre x-shaped object that astronomers have never seen before. >> and now here's an early look at how wall street will kick off the day. the dow opens at 11,096 after adding 75 woints yesterday. the s&p gained 8 points and the nasdaq gained 23. taking a look at overseas trading this morng in tokyo, the nikkei climbed 180 points while in long conthe hang seng surged 394. >>> stocks hit fresh fiveonth highs again yesterday fueled by its sinking u.s. dollar. overseas this morning, the dollar dropped to a ten-month low after singapore unexptedly tightened policy to give its currency more flexibilities. back on the street, industrials and marials led the day's gains while commodities sp