program, but it will not work for people on medicare if nobody takes medicare. we have to be realistic about what is it necessary to save medicare. i would just simply say that the lessons we learned from the previous medicare pinches are lessons we should take into the future. 1997 was an important budget agreement. it was a republican congress with a democratic president doing a budget agreement to extend medicare solvency, get the economy growing, produce budget surpluses, but this is the lesson we got out of that exercise -- price controls in medicare do not work. congress produced two separate bills to prevent medicare providers from dropping medicare. what i think our friends of the other side of the aisle got out of that as evidenced by the affordable care act is not the price controls do not work, it is price controls or not politically sustainable part of it it is seeing and knowing that access is being denied to medicare beneficiaries. we should just take it out of the hands of politicians. we should take it of the hands of congress. less form an indep

program, but it will not work for people on medicare if nobody takes medicare. we have to be realistic about what is it necessary to save medicare. i would just simply say that the lessons we learned from the previous medicare pinches are lessons we should take into the future. 1997 was an important budget agreement. it was a republican congress with a democratic president doing a budget agreement to extend medicare solvency, get the economy growing, produce budget surpluses, but this is the lesson we got out of that exercise -- price controls in medicare do not work. congress produced two separate bills to prevent medicare providers from dropping medicare. what i think our friends of the other side of the aisle got out of that as evidenced by the affordable care act is not the price controls do not work, it is price controls or not politically sustainable part of it it is seeing and knowing that access is being denied to medicare beneficiaries. we should just take it out of the hands of politicians. we should take it of the hands of congress. less form an indep

whatever it is, it ain't medicare. medicare is very simple. the american people truly understand what medicare is. we all have family that rely on medicare. lord knows we need to improve medicare to help make sure it's sustainable for the next generation. ending medicare is not an agreement. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired. for what purpose does the gentleman from wisconsin rise? >> mr. speaker, i ask unanimous consent to address the house for one minute. revise and extend my remarks. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, the gentleman from wisconsin is recognized for one minute. >> mr. speaker, shortly the house will begin its consideration of the so-called patent reform bill. mr. sensenbrenner: at last night's meeting of the rules committee, when the debate on the rule within the committee wrapped up, the chairman chastised the judiciary committee for voting out a bill in violation of house rules. and specifically the house cut-go rules. however the rules committee also voted a waiver that allows the cut-go ru

program, but it will not work for people on medicare if nobody takes medicare. we have to be realistic about what is it necessary to save medicare. i would just simply say that the lessons we learned from the previous medicare pinches are lessons we should take into the future. 1997 was an important budget agreement. it was a republican congress with a democratic president doing a budget agreement to extend medicare solvency, get the economy growing, produce budget surpluses, but this is the lesson we got out of that exercise -- price controls in medicare do not work. congress produced two separate bills to prevent medicare providers from dropping medicare. what i think our friends of the other side of the aisle got out of that as evidenced by the affordable care act is not the price controls do not work, it is price controls or not politically sustainable part of it it is seeing and knowing that access is being denied to medicare beneficiaries. we should just take it out of the hands of politicians. we should take it of the hands of congress. less form an indep

they wanted to focus on medicare. instead, they are all talking about x-rated photos. >> bret: what about this from a new york delegation perspective and the constituents' perspective when he comes out and calls us in the office a promulgates a lie as we heard today. what does it mean politically as he is standing there saying he won't resign and he didn't violate any laws? >> well, we've always said and how many scandals have we been through, 30 or 40 years, it's the coverup and the lying that get you. not the original offense. this was just a bold-face lie. lie after lie after lie. no question about it. he has a year-and-a-half to until the next election. comes from a heavily democratic district. if he would be challenged it would be in a primary. the real penalty he was the front runner for the next mayor of new york city. somehow, i don't think it will happen. not that the scandal will keep him from being mayor but new york doesn't want to be aial that or international joke. >> it didn't take long for republicans

a simple vote on appropriations with regard to medicare, consulting medicare, bills with regard to medicare reform, this is the most sweeping rule that i've certainly ever faced in my time in the house of representatives and i think many of my colleagues agree. the passage of this rule alone would simply end medicare as we know it by construing in the deem and pass of the bill itself, the operative language, and let me explain how this works for some of our colleagues. rules have broad authority and i know that our chairman of the rules committee, mr. dreier, will on his own time be able to talk about this. the rules committee by the good graces of the house with our rules passing the house has the ability to accomplish whatever the house allows to us rule. so in this rule the house will deem under section 9 that the ryan budget, the budget that ends medicare, the republican budget, shall have forced and -- an effect until a conference report passes and that likely not occur unless the republicans alter their negotiating position vis-a-vis the senate and vis-a-vis the president. i strongly

as with all medicare supplement plans, you can keep your own doctor and hospital that accepts medicare, get help paying for what medicare doesn't... and save up to thousands of dollars. call this toll-free number now. >>> live from cnn london, this is "world business today." welcome back. >>> the first named storm of the atlantic season is beginning to make landfall in mexico. our meteorologist jennifer delgado is at the international weather center with the latest. good morning. tell us more. >> we are talking about tropical storm arlene. it's located roughly about 100 kilometers to the east of the mexico coastline. we're talking about tampico as i show you on the satellite imagery. it's been blowing up over the last several hours. it is moving towards the west, beginning to make landfall. there's the center of circulation offshore. we continue to see weather conditions deteriorating across the region. we're talking about the threat for a flooding with the excessive amount of rainfall and the storm surge. as i show you right now, the winds at 97 kilometers per hour, about 60 miles per

well, the ryan medicare plan radcally alters the medicare program -- radically alters the medicare program starting in 2022 for people 55 years old and younger. starting with that age group, medicare will no longer be a guaranteed benefit but a voucher program which they will be given a $8,000 payment to say, good luck. go find insurance. the congressional budget office has already analyzed what that means for age 54 today in terms of out-of-pocket costs. in fact, it would double the out-of-pocket costs for 54 and below in year one who enroll in the medicare program. and over time we have an analysis which shows what the true out-of-pocket cost would be for a 55-year-old with normal american life expectancy. it would raise their out-of-pocket cost -- these are additional costs by $8 ,000. so for anybody that's out there today who's in that age group, you better start saving up because you're going to need a lot more retirement assets to keep level with withstand an american turns 65 today gets under the medicare program. now, we heard a lot and one of the speakers a few minutes ago was jus

. >> when democrats seem to draw their own line in the sand and say, don't touch medicare, medicare cannot be part of the these negotiations. how given that the medicare trustees have come out recently and said it's worse than we originally thought. if you stay on this current path to medicare, it will go bust earlier than we thought it would. so how can you keep going down this path to medicare and not reform it? how can you do that? >> well, first of all in terms of the short-term, what the republicans are suggesting doesn't affect it. and in the longer term, you know i said on the floor, and i try to say it carefully. just before i spoke a few days ago, someone on the majority side got up and said, we are here to save medicare. and i said, be forthright. you want to end it. not save it. you can't save something by ending it. you can have a different alternative. so i think the republican plan ends medicare and that's a bad idea. >> but then won't medicare go bankrupt if nothing is done? >> i am not sure that bankrupt is the right word, we are talking about sovereignty. we need to get ho

as with all medicare supplement plans, you can keep your own doctor and hospital that accepts medicare, get help paying for what medicare doesn't... and save up to thousands of dollars. call this toll-free number now. >>> the fact is, the president clearly coordinated the secret cia mission, assassination and ensuing press conference specifically to cut off the end of my show, "the celebrity apprentice." so basically i killed osama bin laden. so congratulations to me, donald trump. thank you. you're welcome. >> he thanks himself. he says, you're welcome. >> donald is another one. i love him. i was on his show. >> yeah. you were great. >> but he's a magical character for you guys. >> i don't even understand what he is. he's so good. we did a bit on our show once where we had remote control boats and we were racing them. and he stood up with his boat and he was following his boat around. i go, donald, it's remote control. you don't -- you don't have to touch it. it's the idea of it. you can stay here. that's the idea of the game. you don't walk with the boat. you know, he was, like, i do

as with all medicare supplement plans, you can keep your own doctor and hospital that accepts medicare, get help paying for what medicare doesn't... and save up to thousands of dollars. call this toll-free number now. >> bret: the lone democrat in oklahoma congressional delegation will not run for re-election next year. pentagon dan boren says he will not seek a fifth term. boren told reporters today he is tired of campaigning and wants to spend more time with his family. >>> we're eight months from the first presidential campaign. iowa is leading off in february, then new hampshire. correspondent shannon bream says iowa may not be first for some candidates. >> to potential 2012 g.o.p. contender former utah governor and ambassador john huntsman says he will skip the first electoral event of the presidential race. iowa february caucus. "i'm not competing in iowa for a reason. i don't believe in subsidies that prop up corn, soy beans. i probably won't be spending a lot of time in iowa. i understand how the politics work there." but experts say iowa is not a one-issue state. >> he could h

medicare. you tell me how that improves medicare if you cut services to people and they don't get the care they need. i would now like to yield to my friend from louisiana, dr. john fleming, planning practice doctor. >> i thank the gentleman, my colleague and fellow classmate, dr. roe from tennessee. mr. fleming: what i thought i would do is take a moment and discuss the historical aspect of medicare and how we got to where we are today. you know, i began medical school only seven years after medicare began. in fact, my colleague dr. roe, i think you're probably of a similar age and station in life and also dr. gingrey who is here. some of us may even remember before that. but i watched medicare grow. and you know, the promise to physicians and patients that time is government, if this is passed, will not mess with anything. it will be all between doctors and patients. however, by the time we got to the 1980's, we found that couldn't be true. the costs were exploding far beyond inflation. so th

host: medicare cuts? guest: medicare cuts are significance.we do not do something about medicare, the trek the report says that by 2024, the fund will be insolvent. that is not that far away. the president himself back in 2009, june, i think, he said that the two biggest driver of our debt and deficit are the medicare and medicaid programs. and they are not sustainable. and yet the president and the democratic majority, all they seem to want to do is criticize any ideas that the republican majority has come forward with a budget, with a reasonable, sensible budget. they do not even want to talk about it. they would rather use it as a political tool for 2012. that is totally irresponsible. host: some of your colleagues may have been burned by the political fallout. guest: obviously, the political fallout worries me. i feel that my republican party has the best ideas in regard to run in this country. i want us to keep the majority. i want us to get the white house in 2012, 2013. but i feel it is more important to worry about the next generation

medicare. it's very bold, very straightforward and very understood. the message is real and has reached us because it talks about an attempt here to end medicare in this house. it would force seniors to find their own insurance in the private market. they would be asked to shop. they would be asked to shop with a coupon in hand, the money that the government would kick in for that coverage, part of that coupon would not nearly keep pace with the actual costs, the costs that seniors would be forced to pay. and of course, as 32 cents, which has been beyond the average expectation of the coupon for every $1 premium cost would be the outcome, that means the risk would shift from our senior population, to have them dig into their pockets and the risk would be removed from government and placed in the havends of seniors. it would take away a dependable system and put a profit-driven insurance arena and rationing care for our seniors. this is a very unacceptable outcome, representative garamendi and i

it is the medicare advantage. guest: medicare advantage was deemed by those who supported it as something that would bring down costs. in fact, it costs much more than medicare. much more is spent in support of it than traditional medicare. it is part of the privatization issue, but it ends up costing the taxpayer less. i think it should be repealed. host: st. charles, missouri. democrats. caller: good morning. i am a regular for c-span regarding the program now, and i listened to a lot of the house and senate proceedings. first of all, let me say that i am so sorry that senators like byron dorgan, jeff bingaman, and others have quit us, but to make my point, sending -- several years ago senator dorgan gave a speech complete with charts showing the amount of money that taxpayers are spending on one project and the tigris and euphrates river in iraq. i am thinking now of north dakota and the problems here at home. i wish he would send that out for the listeners and discuss that. guest: let me just say that when you

and medicare overall. it didn't solve the problem, but it got to third, two quarters of a way to the solution and left a huge gap to be sure but less huge than the situation was before. the next slide went into the fact the projections that are in the 2010 and 2011 trustees report depend critically on the nation adhering to the cost-cutting measures that were in the affordable care act and ones that were in the current law right now before the affordable care act one of them is of the sustainable growth rate mechanism which tries to hold down the growth of costs on the physician's fee schedule surface, and as i think all of you know, under that mechanism we are scheduled to have a reduction of 29.4% in physician fee payments on the first of january, 2012. many people have questioned whether we will comply with that. we have had very severe cuts required over the last nine years, and the congress and the president have not adhered to those and instead have substituted small increases or freeze on of the phy

which has nothing to do with medicare it's like let's bring in the private corporation medicare can't negotiate drug prices they're spent they're over spending three hundred eighty six billion dollars these are slight tweaks in the medicare hundred billion dollars as you know slight tweak it is in comparison to the cost of medicare on the yearly basis all right so i will say i'm going to do with medicare party make it the be able to everybody in the country as well as it was originally planned as they are the j. road then it can go bust yesterday yet barely to you we don't have your money just easier to raise the medicare tax or point work pays we assume that the mothers of joining the other thirty three o.e.c.d. nations and having a national health care is never going to get them i think that's a good show me the money that's we are tax rates right now are lower than they were in one thousand and he says of more of them from trying to take that if that's not the kind of state that we want nobody cares enough on the thing that we do i would i would like to live in a country while ever

for all medicare men beneficiaries. so let me start with ms.hewson. as i understand it, your plan is voluntary for medicare beneficiaries. is that correct, and how does that impact the program, that it is voluntary? >> well, it is correct. i think by being voluntary there's probably less enrollment than if it was an opt-out program. but typically, they're enrolling because they want to have assured access to a primary care physician that they go to, and that physician is encouraging them so that they can use the resources of the network that supports the physician in leading their care. >> and then similarly, mr. bloom, i know that the pace association has long believed that it's important to have beneficiaries buy in through voluntary enrollment rather than requiring dual eligibles into pace. did you want to comment on that too? >> yeah. pace, dually eligible beneficiaries have the opportunity to opt in and out of pace, and that has been the long standing track record within the pace program since its intseng. having s

involvement federal medicare. where do you get the 43%? >> that is the amount we are borrowing and printing to cover the amount we are spending. our deficit is $1.65 trillion. eliminate the government would cut expenditures by 43%. >> so where do you cut? >> medicare is absolutely going to engulf the entire federal budget in a short amount of time, if not brought under control. this is where political you get into ground where everyone is fearful. this is where fear comes into play. how about the notion that the federal government gives the delivery of health care to those over 65 to the states? and do that with less money, but take away the strings, mandates, and give states a free rein on how they want to deliver health care to those over 65. i would offer, backed up with 50 laboratories of innovation and best practice, we would absolutely have some best practices that would be emulated. there would be failure, it would get avoided. but the notion of top down does not work. we have a fee-for-service medicare mod

the medicare actuaries tell us by 2050, that will drop to 2.2 workers for everybody on medicare at that time, and that means that the burden on those 2.2 workers is going to be too high. the program -- the current math is therefore unsustainable and it's why we have to change the eligibility age. according to the congressional budget office, doing so, 65 to 67, will save $125 billion over ten years. that's a substantial savings which will contribute, remember, that money will contribute to keeping the program overall viable, paying bills for seniors. the other thing to say, and i will just say this quickly, for those who fear what will happen to those seniors between 65 and 67 as they wait, some obviously will have their own health insurance, but we did pass health care reform, and that's going to be there to cover those people through the -- through the health care exchanges. second, i'm proposing that we reform the complex medicare benefit structure, which is wasteful, misunderstood, particularly by the beneficiaries and a lot of the providers and prone to overutilization and fraud. t

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as with all medicare supplement plans, you can keep your own doctor and hospital that accepts medicare, get help paying for what medicare doesn't... and save up to thousands of dollars. call this toll-free number now. >>> from cnn hong kong in london, this is "world business today." welcome back. >>> a day of high political drama in japan. the prime minister has survived a no confidence vote, but he says he will step down after the nuclear crisis is over. his critics accused him of failed leadership. now the devastating earthquake and tsunami, the nuclear plant crisis that followed and the debt crisis gave naoto kan's opposition plenty of fuel, but he survived by a 2-1 margin. correspondent kyung lah has more on that. a day of high political drama. what happens now? >> reporter: what happen now is the patchwork. can prime minister kan try to get his political party, what's left of it, back together, sew the pieces together and try to get some work done. the prime minister has said i will step down, but let me try to do something here. let pe me try to fix the disast with the nuclear pr

and even larger share of the spending in medicare remain in the traditional medicare system. islamic 55-year-olds would be different and not traditional medicare anymore after a certain point. >> by 2030 evin, more than half of the medicare beneficiaries are still receiving traditional medicare, 45% are receiving the support so it's a gradual transition and the program as understand the proposal the programs in place in traditional medicare would maintain. the second of cervezas the proposal rather than deducting specific experiments on the changes as was done in the last legislation would rely on the price pressure affecting the competing private insurers. >> but does that mean then all the cost containment provisions that are built into the law we have now if it should be repealed would then go by the wayside and wouldn't see the cost containment. there's a lot of work in the health care system and i apologize this isn't the expertise as you said you haven't driven down this is a lot of important good work being done across the country that is actually getting better value

you have to deal with medicare at some point.e point, the demonization of the republicans for wanting to overhaul medicare is going to prevent any solution to the problem. my guess is the white house economic advisers don't want to go quite that far. >> chrystia, republican presidential candidates have been tip-toeing around this paul ryan plan. they want to embrace it but not all the way because they're nervous about it, right? >> right. i think it's a question partly of the republicans being torn between the primaries and the tea party and thinking about the actual presidential race because i think roland is absolutely right. in the general election, medicare is going to be the achilles heel of the republican party. when people looked up close at the ryan plan, cutting the budget sounds great. everybody thinks that the government is fat and bloated and does nothing good for them. but then when you say to people, hang on, instead of medicare, we're just going to give you $6,000 a year, and people are like, actually medicare is k

as with all medicare supplement plans, you can keep your own doctor and hospital that accepts medicareget help paying for what medicare doesn't... and save up to thousands of dollars. call this toll-free number now. >>> from cnn london, welcome back. it may be out of office but he still has a pile of campaign cash. brian todd reports he won't be able to take the money with him. >> reporter: the outgoing congressman references his humble financial background. >> the story of middle-class background is my story and i'm very proud of that. >> reporter: anthony weiner has a few hundred,000 dollars to fall back on if he needs it. that includes a stock portfolio worth between $190,000 and $285,000. he's got campaign money, more than $365,000 cache war chest and more for his prospective campaign as mayor in 2013. >> what can he do with all this money? >> he can't take it with him and go to disneyland. he's not able to convert it to personal use. >> ken gross was much chief of enforcement. he said weiner could keep those accounts intact if he decides to run for either of those offices in the f

it's about medicare. no reduction in benefits in medicare. it's about make it an america again about jobs for the middle class, good-paying jobs for the middle class. i think that is an agenda that can win. >> schieffer: let me just interrupt you. don't you have to though give some plan or some idea of how you're going to reform medicare, because we all know it can't sustain as it is. >> well, we in our health care bill as you probably know saved half a trillion dollars in medicare. we had a half a trillion dollars in savings there, which we plowed back into improved benefits for seniors in terms of prescription drugs. but even more important than that, we made it stable for about ten years into the... added ten years of solvency into the future. that was a big story. the republicans want to overturn that. that's one of the fights that we are having. because we want to have those savings to keep medicare solvent. >> schieffer: is what you're telling me you've already done what needs to be done...? >> i think we can... the secretary of hhs the

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, medicare is kind of fantastic. has older members of their family. suddenly think, i have to pay for it. it could be a real achilles' heel but they have to be careful in the primaries they have to pass a sort of budget hawk litmus test in order to get through. >> vin weber, is this just the result of tea party influence or result of the economic reality in which we find ourselves? >> tea party certainly has an influence on presidential candidates but paul ryan understands the budget i would argue better than anybody on capitol hill, maybe with the exception of senator conrad. he understands the difficults we face and cannot be dealt with unless dealing with medicare. it is attracting a lot of criticism, i understand that. the only way however i'm going to repeat that it becomes the kind of negative issue all the way through the next election that they are talking about is if the democrats refuse to put anything of their own on the table with regard to medicare, which means if they refuse to face up to the budget pro

as with all medicare supplement plans, you can keep your own doctor and hospital that accepts medicaregot ♪ ♪ don't let go, girl ♪ we've got a lot ♪ got a lot of love between us ♪ hang on ♪ hang on [ cheers and applause ] >> that was your 1981 song "let's hang on". i was 16 when that came out. i loved that song. >> yeah. yeah. >> i loved it. >> yeah. >> i'm reliving my youth, barry. you were there every step of the way. >> you know, people keep saying that to me. i was the music of their lives. >> yeah. >> and i don't know. i guess that's wonderful. i guess it's wonderful. >> obviously on the good side people say we're playing your song at my wedding or something like that. how do you feel people as they do play your songs at their funerals? how do you feel about that? >> i've never heard of that one. i must say. >> i've heard it. >> really? that there was one of my songs? >> a guy i know. [ laughter ] >> that's good. no, i've never heard anybody playing my song at a funeral. but i guess there's one or two that would be appropriate. something they liked. >> i'm reading these questions

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call this medicare part d. you for everybody and i love that that phrase what we really should be thinking about right now is medicare part d. we already have the infrastructure with medicare we already have the system we have we have the actuarial is we have the people who can write the checks will get everything's in place and the total overhead is only three percent the big commercial health insurance companies they skim twenty thirty percent off the top we could do it we can reduce cause we can cover everybody in america and medicare part d. now. it's time for a daily poll your chance to tell us what you think here's today's question and you must be exceptional if james of your own robbed a bank for a dollar to see a doctor in prison after being denied health care your choices are no the u.s. needs to join every other industrialized nation was socialized medicine or yes apparently conservatives think it's exceptional for someone to have no option but prison log on and so on arbonne dot com let us know you t

and even larger share of the spending in medicare remain in the traditional medicare system.amic 55-year-olds would be different and not traditional medicare anymore after a certain point. >> by 2030 evin, more than half of the medicare beneficiaries e still receiving traditional medicare, 45% are receiving the support so it's a gradual transition and the program as understand the proposal the programs in place in traditional medicare would maintin. the second of cervezas the proposal rather than deducting specific experiments on the changes as was done in the last legislation would rely on the pric pessure affecting the competing private insurers. >> but does that mean then all the cost containment provisions that are built into the law we have now if it should be repealed would then go by the wayside and wouldn't see the cost containment. there's a lot of work in the health care system and i apologize this isn't the expertise as you said you haven't driven down this is a lot of important good work being done across the country that is actually getting better value for the d

destroys medicare, ends medicare as we know it. cuts medicaid, most people think that's for poor people. most of the money goes to kids or seniors in nursing homes. that's going to be kind of a tough one. so huge devastating cuts. more tax cuts. more of the joke economic policies. let's cut taxes and that will help us deal with the deficit. more tax cuts for rich people and big corporations. he doesn't balance the budget even under his rosy scenario written by the heritage foundation until 2040. that's a serious attempt at dealing with our debt and deficit. that's the ryan budget. the obama budget is even worse. don't know if it gets there by 2050. neither side is dealing seriously with these issues. we need to focus people's minds and a balanced budget amendment to the constitution is the best way to do that. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired. the chair recognizes the gentlewoman from texas, ms. jackson lee, for five minutes. ms. jackson lee: i thank the speaker very much. and i thank my colleagues and ask

as with all medicare supplement plans, you can keep your own doctor and hospital that accepts medicareget help paying for what medicare doesn't... and save up to thousands of dollars. call this toll-free number now. >>> i don't like to attack republicans. many of them have excellent, excellent characteristics and they're good in the positions they're in now and i support them and their positions as representatives or governor or fox news hosts. but i think -- well, i'll put it in a nut shell, if you don't chris christie, romney will be the nominee and we'll lose. >> you still think that? >> yes. no. yes, i still think we should run chris christie. i now think the economy is -- in fact, i've retracted this to some extent like a month ago on some radio show or something. i now think the economy is such a disaster and obama has such a glass jaw that we might win with romney. >> he's on after you again tonight. the economy is one of his strong points to argue. >> no. it is. the problem with romney that a lot of people have, people like me, conservatives, is romney care. i still think he'll

democrats want to keep medicare, want to preserve medicare. that in itself i think should tell you about where we are coming from. we are not in the majority in the house, but we have an opportunity all of the time to send this message by our boats and the amendments that we put forth and bite -- buy our votes and the amendments that we put forth and by the budget we put forth. that is what democrats stand for. host: 10, texas. alex, a republican. caller: i am calling on behalf of the -- i would like to say that your information on libya is not correct. president obama on top of the supreme court on a southern country to impose a leader that was given to him by -- we all know that sarkozy, who is running the foreign policy of the united states -- when president bush was in power, we found out how hypocrites the french were did today in libya, the information about protecting the lives in libya is not correct. this is another action from the french to try to eliminate african people. what president obama has done in africa is very barbaric. he

as with all medicare supplement plans, you can keep your own doctor and hospital that accepts medicare, get help paying for what medicare doesn't... and save up to thousands of dollars. call this toll-free number now. >>> welcome back. this is "world business today." let's check in again with what's going on in europe in terms of the stock markets which now are just open 90 minutes into the trading day. looking at gains about a quarter of a percent for the london ftse. par rasis cac up about a third percent. i'm not sure the numbers are updating, but that's the general picture. in asia, utilities and automakers led the way on the nikkei. tepco, the tokyo electric power company which we have been hear being recently, that saw a bit of bargain hunting. shares by nearly 4%, that after a nosedive of 27% or 28% on monday. on tuesday, sony was the big name faring badly with more hacking woes at the entertainment giant sending its shares down 1.5%. the asx index in australia rose in late trading but finished down after the reserve bank kept interest rates on hold. elsewhere, a mixed picture.

as with all medicare supplement plans, you can keep your own doctor and hospital that accepts medicare, get help paying for what medicare doesn't... and save up to thousands of dollars. call this toll-free number now. >>> hello, live from cnn london, this is "world business today." welcome back to the show. here are the other top business stories for you this hour. apple's ipad will soon have another rival. hp says it's touch pad tablet will go on sale july 1st. the device will retail at a starting price of $499, matching the price of the ipad. >>> facebook says it's working with european regulators to address criticism of its new facial recognition feature. it's faced criticism since it had installed the tool without telling users. >>> citigroup says it's mailing out replacement credit cards to 100,000 of its north american customers. on thurgs, the bank said that hackers had stolen credit card numbers, addresses and e-mail addresses from about 200,000 customers. it says their social security numbers and birth dates were not accessed by the hackers. >>> that attack saw citigroup join

as with all medicare supplement plans, you can keep your own doctor and hospital that accepts medicarelp paying for what medicare doesn't... and save up to thousands of dollars. call this toll-free number now. >>> live from cnn london and hong kong, this is "world business today." welcome back. >>> the march of the mobile phone from its humble beginnings certainly got everyone talking and one conversation that's not losing any steam concerns the possible link between hand set usage and our health. the world health organization now says there could be a risk with mobiles having as much potential to cause cancer as lead, exhaust or chloroform. previously the wto assured consumers that no damaging health effects had been uncovered, nina. >> the report stresses that the risk is merely possible, rather than definite, and mobile industry leaders insist that the products are safe but as nicole collins reports here, there are many others dialing into this debate. >> reporter: 5 billion cell phone subscriptions are estimated worldwide. >> probably hold it to my ear maybe twice a day. >> reporte

as with all medicare supplement plans, you can keep your own doctor and hospital that accepts medicaret help paying for what medicare doesn't... and save up to thousands of dollars. call this toll-free number now. >> i do all my best work just before we -- >> if people could see what's happening in the breaks, it would be more compelling. it's a fascinating discussion we've been having. i'm going to ask you, do you still go to the movies? do you like movies? >> i don't go very often. i get them. they send them to me. the academy does. i know everything that's out there. >> would you like to make another great film? do you have one in you? >> sure. does anyone want to use me, i don't know. i don't think so. >> why not? >> i don't know. because there are better actors out there now. i was only so-so. i just had wonderful vehicles. >> do you feel like you wasted an opportunity or did you enjoy it brilliantly in the wrong way after "love story" became this huge, global hit? >> look, i did "what's up doc" and that was a huge success. you know, by the way, tatum was with me the whole time. s

about medicare. it goes on. "the trustees projected that the total medicare spending will draw more than 45% of its funding out of the treasury's general fund in 2011." a lot of people think that medicare is funded by the medicare tax we pay on our paycheck, the withholding taxes that are paid. and that's a significant amount of money, no doubt about it. but the medicare trustees just reported to us that they will -- the total money that they spend of that amount 45% is funding directly out of the general funds, general tax revenues, not the payroll beholding. as a consequence for the sixth dpleer a row, they say -- 2006 through 2011 -- the trustees made an "excess general revenue medicare funding determination." two consecutive "excess general revenue medicare funding determinations trigger a medicare funding warning." this medicare warning requires that the president submit a legislative proposal to address this crisis within 15 days of his next budget. so -- well, for six years we've been running

redican generally pays the medicare part b premium and the cost sharing for medicare services.or some, medicaid also covers various benefits not covered by medicare including long-term care support and services, dental care, eyeglasses and other benefits. each state determines its own eligibility standards and which benefits will be provided to medicare beneficiaries. so we are able to watch various states experiment with different models and designs to better align the care of the will eligibles. currently 15 states have been selected to receive funding and data and technical assistance from cms to develop a more coordinated middelkerke for the deutsch eligibles. we can improve the quality-of-care the dual eligibles received and we can make the care more efficient and easier for them to navigate and we can do all this while lowering costs to the federal government and the beneficiary. i look forward to hearing from witnesses today about which models are being tried in the states and what we learned so far. this time i will yield the remaining time to the vice chair dr. burgess

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as with all medicare supplement plans, you can keep your own doctor and hospital that accepts medicaret help paying for what medicare doesn't... and save up to thousands of dollars. call this toll-free number now. >>> your movie is called "no woman, no cry" and follows the lives of at-risk pregnant women. why did you make this? >> i had my first child 7 1/2 years ago. after i delivered kras, i experienced a complication which was managed seamlessly between my midwife and doctor and i learned in the weeks that followed that that same complication was the leading cause of maternal death worldwide. i think learning that, it just opened a door for me and i wanted to know more about why women were -- i wasn't aware that women were still dying in pregnancy. and then i discovered that hundreds of thousands of women were dying each year. a thousand whimper day and 90% of the deaths were preventable. and learning that, it just pushed me to want to figure out why that was. and so i set out to make the film as a way to collect stories, travel the world, get a better sense of things so i can lead

as with all medicare supplement plans, you can keep your own doctor and hospital that accepts medicareget help paying for what medicare doesn't... and save up to thousands of dollars. call this toll-free number now. >>> today i've got cancer but on the other hand i'm alive. so i guess i'm great. yeah. right now, i am great. my life goes on and so does my fight. >> what an emotional moment there from your long-time love, farrah fawcett who so sadly died and you were right there through the end. and you were together for 30 years up and down, even as you look there, it's incredibly painful. >> i can't look at her. i can't look at her. what bothers me the most is that there was turmoil during my love affair with farrah, a lot of it caused by my family, by my kids, all of them, but particularly tatum. and i just think if she had never met us, would she still be alive today? because nobody knows what causes cancer, do they really? and she didn't smoke and she didn't drink and she didn't exercise every day and she believed in her good health. and then we came along, the four of us. and gradu

medicare goes on farther. unfortunately under this law the money is taxed on the payroll, collected by the medicare trust fund, makes a very short stop in the medicare trust fund and then goes to fund a very different program, a program that in fact does not exist today but will start in 2014, a program of subsidies for entitlements for people to purchase private insurance in nonmedicare years in what are called the state exchanges. so the money goes from the medicare trust fund to fund a new entitlement. that money will have to be paid back to the medicare trust fund. make no mistake about it, the money we're borrowing from ourselves but not there to save medicare today. when the administration argues, hey, within the affordable care act we've done things to sustain medicare not future. nothing can be further -- into the future. nothing can be further from the truth. they've poured gas on the fire that's existed. and then benefits can be cut in the future. i say if nothing else happens and we get to the point

as with all medicare supplement plans, you can keep your own doctor and hospital that accepts medicare, get help paying for what medicare doesn't... and save up to thousands of dollars. call this toll-free number now. >>> after a slow start, the republican presidential campaign for 2012 is taking shape. the field is pretty much set with a couple late entries still to come and position of candidates is coming into focus. to drill down on the state of the race, i'm joined by steve kornacki, news editor of salon.com on the left and reihan salam from the right. welcome to you both. let's set the table this week. we saw michelle bachmann rising. we saw newt gingrich crashing over and over and we saw tim pawlenty wandering aimlessly and mitt romney hovering above the fray. what does it tell you about the republican party. you're in that camp. give us your best shot. >> i think it's very encouraging. a republican party abandoned issues that were not constructive and moving the party forward growing its base. you see them connecting with a lot of american voters. i was actually very pleasantly