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i need medicare. i need it bad. you've got to pass medicare for me. he says mr. president, i've been fighting medicare on my life. i can't just turn around. he says make it bigger. say it wasn't good enough for you. you'll get all the credit. this could make you vice president. this is in five or six different tapes we've heard. the quotes i've just given you, that johnson is relentless. he's the one who suggests come up with these programs together. wilbur's first resisted many to backstab johnson. but at the end of the day they make a deal. at one point he's talking to the floor of congress. this is never done. on the phone to one of his liaisons for congress he hears wilbur's voice and says he's that? but wilbur on. they complete breach of protocol they put wilbur on the phone. johnson has housed that no spill? i hope you're trying to get that. that's what he was medicare. what's remarkable is the bill passes in march of 1965 and not till to designate to the discover that lyndon johnson was in on the secret. he managed to give all the credit to wilbur mills an

he had a medicare expansion, it was the largest medicare expansion in history. arguably the most conservative president in the second half of the 20th century. ronald reagan and george bush, both of them passed huge medicare expansions and both of them were really good at explaining it in my simple terms. ronald reagan had passed catastrophic medicare expansions and he says we have to worry about people going broke. now the republicans hated it and a year later the congress repealed it but reagan got it through and explained in a nice symbol term so for a while what was quite popular to beat was so convoluted that in the collapsing, and again bush got out there and explained prescription drugs are expensive. we are going to expand the pool. the details of the bill were hellishly complicated but bush didn't go into the details. liberals like to criticize bush for being simplistic that this case is simple explanation was very useful if. the actually like the expansion that is the sign of a very successful operator. someone that could manage to get republicans and

not just medicare, but all of us. people with disabilities, but everybody because doctors who treat medicare patients dr. street medicare patients. they treat the rest of ssl. but i think is interesting is your washing 10, were in the midst of deep thought, deep discussions about budget realities and medicare faces financial challenges, but it's not just a medicare problem. it's a health care cost problem. but nobody has yet uttered at the initial cbo found that the congressional budget office thinks will achieve budget saving is where policymakers focus a lot of their attention. so what we're hearing now with wings like to raise the issue of medicare and increase premiums that medicare beneficiaries pay in charge denmark are sharing. these are things that i'll have real dollars associated in terms of savings. we're not hearing him talk to manage about the financial incentives that doctors face and ways to encourage greater care corp. nation. some of that was started taking care of or at least rest preliminarily in th

a quirk in medicare law kept aprn from signing home health plannings of care and from certifying medicare patients for home health benefit. in areas where access to physicians is limited, this prohibition led to delays in home health services. moreover, the delays in care inconvenience patients and their families and can lead to increased costs to the head care system. this occurs when partes are unnecessarily left in institutional settings or readmitted after discharge because they did not receive proper home care. a sufficient supply of nurses is critical in providing our nation's population with quality health now and into the future. recommendation steered nurses and advanced practice nurses are the backbone of hospitals, community health clinics, school health programs, home health, and long term health programs and serve in many settings. according to the 2008 national sample of surveyed registered nurses, one million of the nation's 3.1 million nurses are over the age of 50 with a quarter of them over the age of 60. in populations like wyoming, the provider population is aging and

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remember, all medicare supplement insurance plans help cover what medicare doesn't pay. save you thousands a year in out-of-pocket costs. call now to request your free decision guide. and learn more about the kinds of plans that will be here for you now -- and down the road. i have a lifetime of experience. so i know how important that is. . >> they are not paying to those who are legal citizens. >> i recent the idea that it describes you know what is taking place. and i also don't think that has to be a party issue. you know, other panelists mentions republican versus democrat, i am interested in the education system, and making it affordable for everyone. >> this is a political move in colorado, the republicans voted a long party lines every year they are trying to pass this. >> what are you saying malia this is not a littl political m? >> i'm saying, is to her point, unfortunately all these issues, which should be discussed under this idea of america, give me your here and humble is being turned into politics, it is misleading to think that somehow democrats are only

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remember, all medicare supplement insurance plans help cover what medicare doesn't pay.e you thousands a year in out-of-pocket costs. call now to request your free decision guide. and learn more about the kinds of plans that will be here for you now -- and down the road. i have a lifetime of experience. so i know how important that is. john: we in the media obsess about baddnews. it is our job. we'll have to carry the -- cover the plane crash but if it doesn't hit the studio that is not news. today thousands of plane lands without smashing. it is not news. nobody is out by that back fence gossiping about who was being faithful to his spouse. news coverage distorts life. people think there is more crime and suffering than ever. but people live longer. around the world fewer people are hungry. the divorce rate has fallen in america also with teen violence and teen pregnancy. then shooting of connecticut make us think kids are in more danger but it is the opposite. america is safer. nice is not news. seven point* 8 percent unemployment rate is unusually high. but that does

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unbounded costs in medicare.estyles are pushing it up and end-of-life issues, and there's just tremendous upward pressure on medicare costs, and i'm extremely concerned we won't be able to fund it, or else it will squeeze everything out of the budget. first of all this, proposal is going to be phased in. doesn't affect anyone at all who is over the age of 55, so they are all excluded, and, frankly, it won't phase in until people today are under 35, so you've got a long period of phase-in, a very sound proposal that puts both medicare and social security on the right track, and i think 70 is the new 50. turned 70 last fall, and can i tell you like many of my colleagues, we are continuing to work, and we're enjoying life, and i think this can work and work very well, and under the affordable health care act people will be protected in this period, so i think it will work very well. >> let me just comment. >> sure. >> under the affordable care act there's some real cost savings in the medicare program. many of these

and medicare is a reflection of the health care costs.e start giving up on the program? i think that's where -- >> to bring this to the broader, i think what's interesting here is there is disagreement even within the democratic base on the way forward on entitlements and illustrate the tough josh that the president does have sort of convincing republicans that he is serious about not negotiating on those things when he even has pressure from his own side to do so but former governor ed rendell, thank you so much. >> can i say one last thing? >> yes. sure. sure. >> if we don't do this, if we are rigid, the democrats say no change the line in the sand, how can we expect them to change? >> amen, governor. >> well, we will have to have this discussion another day. >> experience that though. >> the thing is that cutting benefit cis not the only option and as we saw with health care reform, which was an attempt to bring down health care costs overall, which is the bigger problem with medicare, but we will have to have you back on to have the b

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so how i would handle medicare. social security is not an immediate threat in terms of our imbalance. i think we should sit down and have a discussion about how we safeguard and fortify social security for the longer term. let me just finish quickly by talking about tax reform. dave camp set out a target of a 25% rate for individual and a 25% rate for corporate taxation. i said, um, i didn't think just setting that without indicating how you would get there was anything realistic. you haven't asked me how we're going to get more revenues for sequestration. in my judgment, we're going to have to take a look at proposals like the 28% proposal of the administration but with this caveat: i think i was among the first if not the first to say be careful about how you proceeded with itemized deductions. and so we asked joint tax to give us charts on income distribution for each of them. and the income distribution changes depending on what itemized deduction you're taking into account. but clearly, if we're going to find a

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, five times medicare, seven times medicare. we are just finishing up the study and the results are eye-popping in terms of out-of-network charges so we have to look at that. stuart talked about malpractice. if we want a high-performance system that to protect physicians who are practicing best practice and surely that is something stakeholders can agree with. i want to just say two more things. 21st century workforce. we have talked about the scope and practice from the standpoint generally in the policy community about nurses working to the top of their license. i would say it's important to look at the practice breaking down barriers so physicians can practice to the top of their licensing getting as much help as possible implementing coordinated care and disease management which we need to move to. finally, i think there are real opportunities if we take the commonwealth fund notion of taking $2 trillion out and we look at where is the best area and what is the best way to do that? we think that there is some real potential

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in medicare, medicaid and the federal system up to 10 or 12%, they don't know, know way to measure itthis is the classic example where we have 1990's technology could save this money and the government is twiddling their thumbs. >> caroline, this is a drop in the bucket of the whole medicare annual budget, but you've got to start somewhere, don't you? >> i would agree, but toby, we did just put in a 77 million dollar system and that's why we caught this. this is a new type of fraud. so i'm a little more optimistic and i want to complicate it a little bit because when you're talking undocumented workers, we actually make $80,000 on average per worker because two-thirds of the 12 million undocumented workers, 8 million of them pay medicare, social security, and they pay income taxes, and don't get that back. >> that doesn't mean that they should necessarily get illegal benefits. >> i'm not making that argument, but making the argument at that we're not losing that money in fraud, we're actually making money off of it. >> what do you think of that business model as toby said? >> it's the

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>> it's medicare. it's just medicare. medicare is taking over this country.ating every bit of discretionary spending. if you only talk about medicare from now on, it would not be enough. that is the issue. >> jimbo, thanks. see you in a couple of minutes. >> all right. >> when we come back, a man many tv fans know as mcdreamy. managed to beat starbucks at its own game. squawk will be right back. she knows you like no one else. and you wouldn't have it any other way. but your erectile dysfunction - you know, that could be a question of blood flow. cialis tadalafil for daily use helps you be ready anytime the moment's right. you can be more confident in your ability to be ready. and the same cialis is the only daily ed tablet approved to treat ed and symptoms of bph, like needing to go frequently or urgently. tell your doctor about all your medical conditions and medications, and ask if your heart is healthy enough for sexual activity. do not take cialis if you take nitrates for chest pain, as this may cause an unsafe drop in blood pressure. do not drink alcoho

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remember, all medicare supplement insurance plans help cover what medicare doesn't pay.ands a year in out-of-pocket costs. call now to request your free decision guide. and learn more about the kinds of plans that will be here for you now -- and down the road. i have a lifetime of experience. so i know how important that is. >> neil: well, my compliments to major garrett. the fox turn cbs newser proved some snow what is good for the goose and the gander. if you are going to fault republicans to bring to us debt ceiling brink, point out that the democrats played the same game. that is not just republicans who are balking at raising the debt ceiling, that means saying that theteams did the same thing. major is pointing out to the president's face that the president has done so himself. i'm not saying, nor is major garrett, who is right or wrong but fair is fair. continuing spending debate in washington, not covering both parties fair or up fair is both. would it kill you to say that the democrats are just as obstinate for not wanting to cut spending. if republicans are ada

medicare by itself spent nearly $480 billion last year. over the next ten years it will spend more than $7 trillion. in fact, by the end of that same ten years we'll be spending more on medicare than on our entire national defense. the prospects for medicare solvency only get worse as time goes on. over the long term, medicare has nearly $39 trillion in unfunded liability. that's $328,404 for every american household in this country. fixing medicare won't just be a matter of trimming off some of the fat and waste. the problem with the -- the problems with the program are systemic. now let's talk about medicaid for a moment. things are not much better with that program. the federal government spent $261 billion on medicaid in 2012, and the states themselves spent about $196 billion, bringing the total cost of the program to $457 billion in a single year. in the next ten years federal medicaid spending, as a share of u.s. economy is set to grow by 37%. the federal government will spend more than $4.4 trillion on the program over that time. a

medicare -- much tougher. medicare goes broke in 12 years. 12 years. why? well, because low lo and behold, today 10,000 americans reached the age of 65. we knew it was coming, but as the baby boomers show up, their demand for services that they have paid for and i vested in throughout their working lives are going to continuing to he grow. those people who say there's too much government spend, we've got to stop the government spending, i want to ask them, are you going to a to the millions of americans who paid into social security for a lifetime, paid into medicare for a lifetime, that we're going 0 walkway from our obligations? of course not. what we have to do on medicare is find a way to meet this growing population with demands and the mushrooming costs of health care. we can do it. there are ways to save money, humane ways to save money and protect the integrity and future of social security, medicare, and medicaid. i think that the president's obamacare, as it's been characterized, or affordable health care arctic senior senator a step in that drefn

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wilbur, i need medicare. i need it bad. wilbur, you've got to pass medicare for me.wilbur mills says, mr. president, i've been fighting medicare all my life. i can't just turn around. and johnson says, wilbur, make it bigger. say it wasn't good enough for you. wilbur, you'll get all the credit. wilbur, this could make you vice president. now, this is in five or six different tapes that we've heard, what i've just -- the quotes i've just given you. so there are dot, dot, dots between them, but johnson is relentless. he's the one who suggests, put these different programs together. and wilbur first resists, and then he thinks about it, and then he tries to back stab johnson, but at the end of the day, they make a deal. at one point wilbur mills is walking on the floor of johnson, johnson hears wilbur's voice, and he says, who's that, is that wilbur? put wilbur on. and complete breach of protocol, they put wilbur on the phone, and johnson goes, i hope you're down there trying to get that mills bill through. that's what he was calling medicare. what's remarkable is this

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