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medicare, he wants $250 million over a quarter of a year. that saves for medicare. and medicaid is more essential now than it's ever been and it's a key part of obama care. i don't know what mr. plouffe was talking about. i think he got the republican talking points mixed up with his. >> that was my first impression when i saw the videotape as well. the question comes up. what are you willing to accept in a deal when it comes to programs like medicare and medicaid? >> look, this december should be about revenues. then we can go on to have discussions about the long-term solvency and where medicare fits in and the changes coming by 2014 as we move ahead with obama care. but revenues have to come first. they should come first because we hold all the ace s. they don't have to worry about their pledge because they are voting to reduce taxes for working americans. they just can't do anything about the millionaires and billionaires and the unearned income, which is going to go back to clinton-era rates. >> i was really surprised that david plouffe would bring up the idea

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he doesn't have a plan to save medicare. you know that prescription drugs are not medicare. the cost of hospitalization. everybody knows that. it's not that prescription drugs. we need to bring down the costs by allowing people to decide how to spend their money and get their competition into the field. a solution of the prescriptions is illogical. >> moderator: next question will go to mr. gary mcdowell. the funds for social security will begin to increase after the baby boomers. why we here all this talk of the two programs going broke? mr. mcdowell, you have two minutes. mcdowell: i have been traveling across the district. i talk to a lot of seniors. most seniors in this district depend solely on social security for their income. they pay into the program and has done so the entire time. i promise you that i will fight to protect social security and i will oppose any attempts to privatize the to raise the retirement age. to start out, social security right now is projected to be solvent for the next several years. when i look back at the long-term problems of social secur

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aarp is doing a companion at on medicare, the medicare program, which we knew they would be doing. which is why we thought our special contribution was on taxes and jobs. >> the white house has indicated that based on the negotiation, they are prepared to use public support to pressure congress to come up with something. how closely are you all coordinating with the white house on these outreach efforts? >> very closely. we want to have the presidents back. it is amazing that he is the first president in our generation to stand for everybody paying their fair share. we think that is the right direction and leadership for the country, and so we are coordinating with how and where the best places are to do the education and mobilization. >> now this second campaign, will the president owe seiu and other organizations? >> we do not think about it like that. we think about it as more and more families are falling into poverty. far we have an obligation as a labor union to think about how do we do better for working people in this country. we see the president as a leader in that regard

medicare.icare system has come of this left. given its funding. social security could be bankrupt by 200033. specifics about how to reform and at longevity to these programs. >> a few things we need to do. i start on a point of where the people in the district wants me to be. they want to maintain the guarantee of social security and they want to maintain the guarantee of medicare. not once in the 18 months i have been campaigning has a single senior come up to me and said, please let him do it wants to do. we need to be honest about the fraud and the abuse in the program. here is where i agree with peter ross. he has a bill out. the fast act. it would go after the fraud and waste and abuse in medicare. i would certainly support that. we have to be honest. i would also look at medicare being allowed to negotiate for lower drug prices. we were able to do that. so much in prescription drugs and you get a price that is cheaper. medicare cannot do that. >> will that be enough? >> you need to look a

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is raiding $716 billion from medicare changing the program forever. >> medicare should be the promisemade to our seniors period, end of story. >> barack obama has taken $716 billion from it. it's that simple. >> cenk: that simple! obama's taken $716 from medicare and the republicans are going to protect it, right? after the election, mind you listen to this, entitlement reform means and everybody in washington knows this, the reporting absolutely confirms it. i just want you to be clear on this. it means cutting medicare, medicate and social security. so they wouldn't do entitlement reform after the election, would they? let's find out. >> entitlement reform. >> reform the entitlements. >> it's couped with real entitlement reform. >> it's going to take cuts in entitlements. >> only if democrats will do entitlement reform. >> change the model for medicare for the long term. >> without spending cuts and entitlement reform, it's going to be impossible to address our countries debt crisis. >> shore up entitlement programs that are the primary drivers of hurry debt. >> cenk: i that the you

chris: and medicare. >> and medicare. that that might be the kind of -- chris: i heard that argument. it's a liberal argument but a good one because it does address income -- >> exactly. chris: it makes the rich pay a little more. when we come back, scoops and predictions from the notebooks of these top chris: welcome back. tell me something i don't know, dan? >> i had a call this week from a republican congressman seeking to call attention to his efforts to move up the time line for the removal of our troops from afghanistan. now, this may indicate that it's more bipartisan support for that line of thinking than most people may realize. we've had bipartisanship on issue by issue, even in recent times but not on the broad general thing but what this tells me and what people will think about is that with this in mind there may be things about which congress can reach some bipartisanship issue by issue as we go along. chris: we can only do so much -- a true conservative understands limits. how long can we stay in that count

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they wanted to send you a voucher for your medicare.reform basically everything and take it away. we won the election. now we have to stand tall to make sure we protect the safety net of medicare and medicaid. we should stand tall. there's no sense kicking the can down the line. what they are doing is trying to hold the 98% hostage for the 2% who aren't paying their fair share. every american realizes the rich should pay more money. that's the message we have to deliver. if they are playing that game, it's a losing hand and we're on the right side of this. i think we should say this is what it is. let's have reform. let's make sure we keep tax cuts for 98% of the people. but the 2% have to pay their fair share. >> but mr. hoffa, if we go off the fiscal cliff, you're prepared to do that. that would hurt a lot of your members. are your members, do you think middle class americans are prepared to go down that road and bare the brunt of a tax increase just because republicans are stubborn? >> no one wants to see that happen, but guess what?

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requiring drugmakers to pay rebates to medicare in some circumstances.reduce costs by discouraging hospitals from releasing patients too early and then readmitting them which is more expensive. also, reducing coverage of bad debts of hospitals and nursing homes. and charging higher premiums to high-income beneficiaries. there is nothing in those four measures which raises the eligibility age or cuts benefits to medicare recipients. today, we got further confirmation about the administration's proposal in the fiscal cliff negotiations. medicare and other entitlements would be cut by $400 billion over 10 years. let's bring in wendell potter, to sort it out. mr. potter is a columnist for the center for public integrity and "the huffington post" and author of the book "deadly spin." wendell, great to have you back with us here on "the ed show." >> thank you, ed. >> sort this out for us. when the white house says it has in its budget a cut of $340 billion, maybe up to $400 billion, is that going to hit beneficiaries? is that going to affect people that go in

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