who pays for medicare? many it turns outay we for medicare. all of who work pay for medicare from a 2.9% payroll tax deducted from your paychecks. if you look at your pay stub, you'll see this amount deducted every paycheck. you also pay foredicare from your federal income tax that you pay, and seniors over 65 pay premiums and co-payments. this is a reader comment to the new york times in response to a column written by paul krugman. the reader wrote: >> in fact, that's a myth. here's the truth. 44% of medicare spending is paid for by federal income tax revenue. so medicare does contribute to the federal debt, because the federal government does not collect sufficient money from the taxes and other sources to pay all of its medicare bills and has to borrow money and pays interest on that debt. so, yes, medicare does add to the federal debt. this means that when bills are sent to medicare, theal fed vernment doesn't have the money to pay all of them, and it borrows money from places like china. and the u.s. federal debt exceeds $16 trillion. an

in medicare spending. here is a homage to the average social security check needed to pay for premiums and copays. in 2010 a person who earned an average wage of his or her life and retired in 2010 paid 27 percent of social security checks just for part medicare b and d. that is the enormous amount of money and when it was started it was only 6% below where it is headed. when i am old hotel much it will be? with residents become much to pay from their social security checks and now there is a debate to reduce the cost-of-living adjustment. what do we do about that? there is a of runt wonderful line from deliberation room us consider the impact of our decision of the next seven generations to consider the impact for power generation and the next generation because we don't have seven generations to wait. from the medicare trustees' report if assets were exhausted medicare could play -- a health care plans they projected hospital care funding will run out 2024. they can only pay 90 percent. should we have so

not just medicare advantage costs and that is because medicare advantage in the hmo part of medicare advantage does have some incentive to change the practice of care by the physician community. there've been several studies that show that has spilled over and that influences how fee-for-service those same physicians take care of their fee-for-service beneficiary population. i think that's another window into medicare fee-for-service his role and how it influences the delivery of health care. .. >> all the leaders felt very strongly our work had to be grounded on improving the value that our return on investment in this country was not defendable and most important we are not serving well the patients to enter our health care system. lead believe the four pronged a set of integrated policy that included reforms of medicare tax exclusion policy prevention and wellness, a state based reforms dealing with medicaid and medical liability challenges. suffice it to say i will not go through all that and i have been asked to focus on medicare reforms. to anyone who has an old father or mothe

the medicare program. i hope we have more time to talk about this. we a seller at the movement toward the accountable care organizations. we called the performance by addressing the shortcomings. one of the shortcomings, of course, medicare beneficiaries don't even know there and it. there is a two sided risk. the policy is designed to accelerate into these networks and reform will we do with the program. how do we do this? welcome on that side of it we have competitive bid, for programs straight up with the fee-for-service program on the medicare network side of it in order to facilitate medicare beneficiaries moving to what was being talked about we do fries payment rates for all fee-for-service providers. you will be paid, but the payment will be frozen, so you have financial incentives to go and deliver those programs. begin talks about the implications of that. so no time left. hopefully we can open up for questions. all of these incentives will improve care and focus on quality. the aggregation of th

medicare. chief actuary of c.m.s. was here just a year ago saying you can't spend the same dollar twice. you can't on the one hand count savings from medicare to pay for obama care and count it as savings to medicare. he even went so far to put appendix in the report to that effect. the other point is in our budget we put a reserve fund, which is a budgetary mechanism to address any inadequacies in the community that may arise if the case occurs where we feel like providers are restricting access to beneficiary because of these cuts. so that's just to answer the difference with the paradox, so- called. i have three questions and i just -- you just released your budget this week, madam. good to see you, by the way, madam secretary. first on the means testing for part b and d, you have in your s-9 tables, you have $50 billion savings associated with that. before we had mutually agreed on policy $30 billion in savings, where is the delta. where do you make up the difference, $20 billion? >> the di

medicare. its trustees tell us this important program is going broke sooner rather than later. the white house and congress need to act together now. this year, to save medicare for the long-term. i challenge you to save medicare for its own sake. not conditioned upon tax increases from hard-working americans to has nothing to do with medicare. this committee will act at the direction of chairman camp. we will examine bipartisan solutions to save medicare. some supported by the president. i invite you to enjoy this committee in working toward long-overdue actions that protect and improve medicare. both republicans and democrats connect three that americans the the -- both republicans and democrats can agree that americans need reform that lowers costs, improves health, and protects the vulnerable. many americans are concerned the affordable care act may not be able to deliver. they have real concerns about how the law will affect their personal healthcare. that the presiden't law will cause hea

medicare cuts back, medicare makes changes, and structure reforms in that compels changes perhaps in the general health care policy of the country. the problem here isn't just medicare structure. the problem is health care costs. as we get older, we are facing a nasty thing. it was once said if you had something called compound interest, it was the eighth wonder of the modern world. that's right if it's working for you. it's working against us right now. not only did we have more elderly. each of the medical procedures they undergo cost more year over year in health inflation. we're getting a double whammy. that's really serious problem. move away from strictly fee-for-service and move in to some things that many people on both sides of the aisle suggested accountable care organizations and stuff like that. you probably would reduce the rate of health care inflation which obviously would help the medicare situation. >> caller: i have a couple of questions that i would like to ask about medicare and social security. [inaudible] own disability. several people go on disability and they

people like medicare. >> and it is a great deal. i have used medicare. let me tell you you something, mckinley medicare costs -- medicare costs are outrunning the contributions significantly. >> greta: because we never cleaned it up and made a efficient. >> what about the cancer patients this morning you are reading about? >> greta: we will hear about that from the next guest. incredible. >> you are talking about rationed care and getting right down to pretty close to what sarah palin was talking about when she was talking death penalty. if you are cutting off cancer treatments for people with over 65 years old with cancer, you are signing death warrants. >> greta: both sides of the ail said in the beginning the healthcare system is a mess and they want to fix it. the problem is whether or not we fixed it or made a bigger nightmare for the nation. when you see the numbers and what is happening in the care, it is very difficult not to have a very grim idea of what is facing us. >> and you wake up this morning as we did and learn look we will need maybe 10

>> what we do is protect medicare -- >> i reclaim my time. they have a plan to save medicare? to save a long-term? >> the president's plan saves medicare as we know it. >> i reclaim my time. in 2030 medicare under your plan? >> we will make reforms. >> in 23 is medicare solvent under your plan? yes or no? >> the president of this >> the answer is no. it is not all of. >> not the right way to look at the problem. >> is it the right way. >> i reclaim my time. i want to look at job growth and investment. this is an important part of growing our economy, putting people back to work, of people working brings more revenue in federal coffers, we all agree on that. i was reviewing the budget and no where in the budget that i see the president was going to support the keystone pipeline. 20,000 direct jobs, 1,000 indirect jobs, infrastructure spending. i don't see that. if you care about jobs, putting private-sector union back to work, why in this budget do you care about jobs and infrastructure spending wire you supporting the keys and pipeline? >> these and pipeline decision in the st

the machine not take private lands offering medicare benefits to higher rates than traditional medicare. inry dollar invested fighting fraud generates 500% return in taxpayers money received. that is good. concern me. i'm concerned the proposed level of cuts cuts in nursing homes may be too high. it reduces access to care area also concerns over the chained cpi proposal. it not only impact social security, but it reduces payments some medicare providers and increases out-of- pocket cost for some seniors. hit our seniors with a one-two punch. these chained cpi changes on top of several billion dollars in the care. this will require compromise. everybody needs to pitch in. we cannot balance the budget on the backs of america's seniors. budget deficits cannot be cuts to medicare or a package of tax increases. we need a balanced approach that is fair to all. the budget also recognizes the need to work with congress to reauthorize the temporary systems to needy families. this is a vital lifeline to our poorest families. and it's a program to be a more efficient job creator and pathway out of

to medicare. so far putting the bendixen the report to that effect the other point is in our budget we put a reserve fund, which is a budgetary mechanism to address any inadequacies in the provider community that may arise if the case occurs where we feel like providers are restricting access to beneficiaries because of these cuts. so that is just to answer the difference with a paradox. i have three questions, and i just -- you just released your budget this week, madam, good to see you by the way, madam secretary. first, on the means testing before we get mutually agree on policies which $30 billion of savings. where is the delta. where do you make the difference in the 20 billion? >> the difference, congressman ryan, is there is a new formula rather than having i think what was in the past four different categories. it's now nine. the lower limit -- >> was it still 80 or does it go up to 90? >> the top is 96, 196. >> the percentage of the beneficiary pays. there are more categories -- >> i woul

i'll let peter talk about medicare and medicaid. he focused all his attention on the spending side of the budget when revenues are at the lowest point in the last 50 years. guest: we don't agree completely. taxes are high enough. we've raised them. i think the tax burden need to be moved around and adjusted and reformed so everybody has skin in the game and so we don't have the imbalance. we need to fix it. i'm fine with his goals in terms of the overall picture, like a roadmap between new york and los angeles you have a red line going across the country. but when you drill down, another great one, medicaid, right now the federal government on medicare doesn't do an adequate job of regulating prices. some of the prices are way too high. the drug manufacturers are getting a free ride which on medicare they get a free ride. on medicaid they are somewhat regulated. on medicaid he wants to deal with the high cost by dealing with dividing it up into 50 programs. i'd like to know how 50 state programs will more effectively eal than the on

what obamacare did to medicare is it took $715 billion from medicare to spend on obamacare and put a new word in charge, putting price controls on medicare providers, which leads to denied access. now in addition to that, in this budget they are calling for about $400 billion more in price controls and cuts to medicare providers. the problem is what the medicare providers are telling us, they will stop providing healthcare to medicare beneficiaries. you go down the path and have government ration and medicare to the community, people aren't going to be able to get medicare and that's what we see coming with obamacare. this is why we have the reform which says get rid of that, leave medicare alone so my mom can keep it like she has and reform it for my generation. those of us who are 55 and younger, so that it reforms, reform it in a way that makes it sustainable. it works like the plan we have in congress. that makes it sustainable for us and helps us keep the commitment to our current seniors. that's what we propose. the president has rejected that. as a result he has to do this. >>

medicare. if that's the idea then let's go to work on doing that work and increases. amendment to gun control for background checks. senate we'll review it. whatnt to wait and sew actually passes over in the senate. >> will the house veto that legislation? there's some concern among democrats that it will be a>> the senate passes a bill, the house will review it. >> on the specific issue, though, are house republicans opened to the idea of expanding background checks for gun purchases? and how much would senator toomey's endorsement, a known conservative, help with, you know, help with that? it's one thing for two members to come to some agreement. it doesn't substitute the will for the other 98 members. senate does. >> what do you think -- should something like this be put into >> what i think is that we're for everyone. this bill only limits it -- no, that's not what i said. one of the issues that we have today is that if there is a background check required that they don't actually check all

. >> they did a complete 180 on medicare. made a complete 180, okay. at some point that was a decision that the rest of the world did not know about. some people inside a room knew that was going happen. the rest of us didn't. now at another point the public found out about it. this company probably was picking up rumors around the agency that this was going to happen but they were unconfirmed. nevertheless they decided to have people execute trades on that basis. >> is that criminal? is there criminal inseventh was there conspiracy? i don't think so. >> you actually trade. >> i was sitting back and listening to this. this is the perfect example of some people are more equal than others. washington has information, public policy, the people can trade on. he said a second ago that you have to have a trade. that's not true. you can pass information along and if a trade occurs you still could be, you know -- the trade has to occur. but you have any material nonpublic information that's real simple you trade on it and profit from

or medicare advantage. and alas, we need to leverage the tools that you'll have granted us to reduce overall costs of care and for the health care delivery system. these tools include payment charges connected to performance, innovative new models of care, and enhanced tools to combat fraud. lastly i would like to thank this committee and the staff for the respect and the working relationship we have built over the last several years and i want to thank you, thank you, and senator hatch, for holding this hearing and giving me the opportunity to speak before the committee and answer any questions spent thank you very much, ms. tavenner. i would like to ask you a few questions about the payment rule. i mention this because in montana, i was sitting there about 10 years ago, i met a group of folks there who are suffering from asbestos-related diseases, mesothelioma, and a large percentage of that town unfortunately has passed away because of the asbestos produced eyed a company, w. r. grace, asbestos has affec

medicaid, largely from medicare, largely on the delivery side. a point that we haven't made yet-- and this gets to some things max has said-- the typical beneficiary of medicare and social security has an income of about $25,000. so when we start fooling around with these kinds ofdjustmts and cuts let's be mindful of not hurting these economically vulnerable folks. >> brown: medicare, joe antos? you scoffed when he said this was a significant reform. >> it's not a significant reform. it's a replay of last year's budget with minor tweaks. last year's budget proposal from the president did not substantially reform the medicare program. the fact is that the $400 million of cuts are offset by $250 billion worth of additional spending that the president assumes will take place in the medicare program. so we're not talking about -- >> so here we have a disagreement. here's a fact: if you look back at the congressional budget office projection of medicare costs over the next ten years and you look back a couple years ago you look at today, that projecti

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to get the extra coverage beyond medicare itself. cms the health department's center for medicaid and medicare services said that the growth rate for reimbursing the insurers in 2014 is going to be over 3%. a big reversal from their proposal last month that would have cut medicare advantage rates by more than 2%. they based that reversal in part because of a statutory medicare rule that normally cuts doctor reimbursement rates. next year it would be a cut of more than 20%. but the doctor rate reimbursement cuts which most people in medicare watch very carefully never happened. for ten years congress has instituted the doc fix. after heavy lobbying from insurers and members of congress and from both sides of the aisles and seniors themselves, cms today said it is setting plan growth at 3.3% instead, they're assuming that there will be no doc fix and no reimbursement to the doctors next year. at the same time, they're capping how much plans can increase rates on seniors to no more than $34 a month, down from $36 a month. on average, it

medicare.publicans and democrats can agree that americans need the right kind of health care reform. reform that lowers costs, improves health, and protects the vulnerable. many americans are concerned the affordable care act may not deliver. they have concerns about how the law will affect their health care. that the president's law will cause hysteric laws to go up while the quality of care goes down. this white house repeatedly promised it would lower costs by thousands of dollars for victims and families. that americans would not lose the health insurance they have. yet you recently admitted the mandates in the new law will make ahealth care premiums more expensive. this week you warned almost 25 million americans will lose the insurance they get at work. clearly the president's new law is not helping families nor local businesses and this budget does nothing to offer them relief. to add insult to injury, as our economy continues to struggle and millions of americans have given up looking f

they want for medicare. that's probably the biggest problem and that will lead to a change in the election. nin the meantime there is a loss of privacy. we all tell our doctors we wouldn't tell anybody else,. you have to talk to your doctor about your doctor keeping two sets of bookings. your doctor will be penalized if they don't enter your medical history and treatments in an electronic database. the goal is one database with a patient having a page. >> i can vouch for the growing painings. i like electronic medical records but they are asking us to see more patients and transition to a paperless system that has to be integrate regulated. >> mike: and you have pay for it >> do i . i get penalized if i don't. >> on top of all . expense. it is a man date on the doctors and they are paid less for medicare and medicaid. reimbursement rates are less and because of the way insurance companies are impacted with new fees, they are having to charge more and we are seeing across the board. >> when we come back, we'l

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medicare? listen.h care costs haven't risen as much in recent years so maybe there really isn't a problem with medicare and medicaid. that's the problem. you really only have one side here who think entitlements are a big problem. >> i want to jump in here and say, you know, it is absolutely true that we need entitlement reforms and tax hikes to make the budgetary math work. but to be the bearer of good news for a minute we've actually come a long way in the last couple years, longer than we give ourselves credit for. if we look at some of the cuts made in 2011, combining the tax hikes at the end of last year, you're two-thirds of the way to a grand bargain even without the sequester. what's really shifting things is the longer-term health care spending. that's what needs to be talked about. >> i think that is the core of the issue here. and those -- i'll include myself -- who say that medicare is not exactly the problem, the real problem is the underlying -- kind of cost curb with regard to health car

marilyn tavenner is probably the acting medicare and medicaid administrator. she has worked as virginia's health and human services secretary. this is two hours. >> the hearing will come to order. douglas macarthur once said, a true leader has the confidence to stand alone, the courage to make tough decisions, and the compassion to listen to the needs of others. testifying before today is marilyn tavenner, nominated to be the administrator of the centers for medicare and medicaid services, otherwise known as cms. ms. tavenner, you are being asked to draw on years of extensive expense to lead this agency and administer programs upon which millions of americans rely. you will surely need confidence, courage, and compassion in this role. ahead of cms has a great responsibility. cms administers health coverage to roughly one in three americans. that includes 50 million medicare patients, 56 million medicaid patients and more than 5.5.5 million children through the children's health insurance program. 167,000 seniors and 8300 no to retirees in montana rely on medic

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he cut the most wasteful programs in medicare, added investigators to get rid of fraud in medicare. how did he get rewarded by that from republicans and attack ad groups? they spent 10s of millions of dollars claiming that democrats want to go after granny. that's again what we're going to see in the next mid term election. that's how politics works. it's unfortunate that obama instead of strengthen social security by lifting the payroll cap is actually hurting it in adding basically a tax on seniors. cenk: republican ryan has a clip i want to read to you. president obama said chain c.p.i. was the number one thing he wanted. now paul ryan says: in other words, i don't care, not a big deal not enough. number one isn't this horrible negotiation strategy, give them what they want and they immediately turn around and go great, i already have it, now i want more, more, more, more. >> it's also an interesting political dynamic here in that yes, this is -- how many times have we seen this? we've seen it over and over again through the budget negotiations we've seen it through the debt ceil

also we shouldn't pay private plans offering medicare benefits the higher rate than traditional medicarefforts to it -- not reduce fraud because every dollar invested fighting fraud generates 500% taxpayers money received and that is good. but the other qualities that concern me here at i'm concerned the proposed level of cuts to nursing homes may be too high and reduces access to care. also concerns over the presence chained cpi proposal moving to chained cpi not only impacts social security but also reduces payments to medicare providers and increases out-of-pocket costs to some seniors. cutting social security and medicare will hit our seniors with the one-two punch. these chained cpi changes are on top of the $360 billion in cuts to medicare the president specified in this budget. cutting our debt will require compromise and we need everyone to pitch in but we can't do that on the backs of seniors. the plan to reign in budget deficits cannot just because to medicare and packaging tax increases. we need a balanced approach that is federal. demonstrations budget recognizes the need to

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why do republicans oppose medicare? have you read healing america:a global quest for better, cheaper and fairer health care? >> guest: i have not read that book. let's talk about what the statistics are. medicare quotes 3% because of 3% on administration but that doesn't count the 14% that is fair. the average private insurance industry company has less than 3% and there's even 25%, close to 70%. so when you look on a net-net basis medicare actually the cost of administration and the cost of everything associated with it which has shifted to the provider in medicare which has not shifted necessarily private insurance. there's not a great deal of difference so they absorb their costs. we don't count fraud in the costs of medicare. you can play games with numbers all you want. what i know is this medicare system we have today undermines the ability to create pressure on the provider to be responsible with the money. there's no penalty if i am not. come to me as a doctor there is nothing if i don't spend the money wisely.

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. >> axelrod: later, medicare patients have their chemoaffected by the sequester. the 14-year-old golfer who is the talk of the masters. and in texas, a high-profile arrest of a formerti oshen the cbs evening news continues. in nearly a year, former egyptian president hosni mubarak appeared in public today. mubarak sat up in the prisoner cage inside a cairo courtroom. he faces charges related to the killing of pro-democracy demonstrators two years another but today, the judge in the case recused himself with no explanation, halting the trial. now to texas where investigators in kaufman, 30 miles south of dallas, have been looking into the murders of a district attorney and his wife as well as another top prosecutor. this morning, eric williams, a former justice of the peace, was arrested after his home was searched, but he's not being called a suspect in the murders. senior correspondent john miller is here to help us sort this all out. john what, is going on here? >> reporter: so what is going on is they've shifted their view in this case away from the original th