becoming on medicare, to keep medicare as it is. and it is sustainable as far as the c.b.o. tells us, indefinitely. however, we would have to reform that for younger adults today who will be senior citizens by opening up the insurance system, creating a marketplace for seniors to buy insurance and then let government help them with what we call premium support and allowing competition in private care to drive the cost down and raise the level of service. in fact, that's what we in congress have today. is a very same thing. the democrats, their plan is this. goode goose egg. no plan whatsoever. under their plan or nonplan, medicare runs out of money in eight years and they fail to present an idea, much less a bill, as we have, that would even solve that. well, that gives you an idea of some of our opening discussion. first tonight i want to introduce my good friend, phil roe, dr. phil roe. and i think he has some comments about the financing of medicare and other things as well and i pitch it to you, dr. roe. mr. roe: thank you. i ap

and blasted the medicare plan saying it would end medicare as we know it for millions of seniors, so, are we looking at granny off the cliff part two? i'm still convinced that's the late great harvey korman, but i digress. to dagen mcdowell and adam, and dagen, what do you think of this? >> the white house communications people said that this plan from widen and ryan, by the way, who is a democrat, who calls caused medicare to whiither on the vine and play book in 2012. they're going to talk about it endlessly, it's going to that the republicans want to end it, and push granny and granddaddy off the cliff. and this is going to be something that they try to hammer, but i do believe that the ryan-weiden plan at least opens the door, bipartisan to a normal ragsal conversation. >> i don't want to get too wonky about this, but-- i am a dork, but me, okay. charles, the idea was that this was going to give people flexibility. you can go with this health care plan or stick with the medicare plan, easier said than done. you have a democrat on board, top republican on board, makes it bipartisan

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he is trying to save medicare.re is no doubt that spending on medicare is a huge, giant program, and spending is an issue in this program. the question is really what to do about it. how to slow the growth of spending? if it is a difficult problem to fix. democrats, of course, want to find new spending to keep the program going. republicans, of course, and for the most parties are generalities, but many republicans want to find some kind of a captain in growth. one thing we have not talked about is there are efforts under way. a lot of the consumer groups, insurers, providers -- a lot of the key people who are part of the stakeholders in medicare and the medical community are already starting to talk behind the scenes about what they can do now to plan for after the election. it is really common thinking that you could do very little before the election. ron wyden en paul ryan do not think they can put their plan into place before the election. there are these discussions happening about what we can do to get at th

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it would make medicare something that not all americans get anymore. which means it's not medicare. this is about changing the social safety net to make its politics more like welfare politics. and less like social security and medicare politics. ask americans how they feel about social security and medicare. those programs are more popular than a cold drink on a hot day. look at that. now, if you make those programs just for some people, see how popular they become. right now, house republicans are playing chicken again. this time it's not the debt ceiling or looming government shutdown. this time it's almost every adult american getting substantially less money in their paycheck as of january 1st, courtesy of a republican tax hike on working people. merry christmas. republicans are willing to bear the political cost of doing that for the prize of starting to rip our social safety net around the edges. for the prize of making the american people see the social safety net not as something that we all have, but instead seeing it as something that other people might need some day. som

>> we know that medicare is great. it, but of course, they love it because, a, they don't know what else they might have had and b, everyone loves getting free stuff. and medicare is kind of like getting free stuff. and it's not free, you said, i paid into it for years, every check, well, yes, you did. but on average, most of you, you say, will get back three times what you paid in. and that's why medicare is it unsustainable. it's growing broke. it's off the cliff, it's 46 trillion dollars in debt. and politicians promised to cut some costs and in fact, the balanced budget act forced them to cut doctor's fees by get this, 29%, starting next month. they're not going to do it. they'll pass what they call the doc fix to delay the cuts. what they've always done and they're not going to anger doctors who take care of seniors who vote. so we're just going broke. what are we going to do? well, dr. scott gottlieb has some answers and he used to work for medicare and was an f.d.a. commissioner and peter suitorman says he has a

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>> we know that medicare is great. people love it, but of course, they love it because, a, they don't know what else they might have had and b, everyone loves getting free stuff. and medicare is kind of like getting free stuff. and it's not free, you said, i paid into it for years, every check, well, yes, you did. but on average, most of you, you say, will get back three times what you paid in. and that's why medicare is it unsustainable. it's growing broke. it's off the cliff, it's 46 trillion dollars in debt. and politicians promised to cut some costs and in fact, the balanced budget act forced them to cut doctor's fees by get this, 29%, starting next month. they're not going to do it. they'll pass what they call the doc fix to delay the cuts. what they've always done and they're not going to anger doctors who take care of seniors who vote. so we're just going broke. what are we going to do? well, dr. scott gottlieb has some answers and he used to work for medicare and was an f.d.a. commissioner and peter suitorman s

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