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i think medicare is 80%.nge and inpatient will change and that's going to create pressures. i think republicans created medicare to begin with. i don't think -- they'll bezv hesitant throughout this new subsidi subsidies. the biggest employer of every union in the country, certainly a little concerned. will be done. i think it's less to the aca and changes and these benefits than it is justzv changes in the mart and patient system is changing and more -- >> changes medical practice. the ability to perform minimallk invasive surgery and get somebody out of the hospital within 24 hours so it doesn't qualify, you can have a really impact ifym you're going forwar where hospitals how they were defined when the medicare benefit was originally passed in 196 # 5 and what a hospital : will look like in the future can be entirely different. the system hasn't kept up with the practice of medicine. and that may orzv may not be an opportunity that the congress takes up in the next four years but it's certainly -- that wil

going forward, medicare is not touched. medicare is unlikely to be touched. there may be a change structurally, the bigger debate is how to scale back the exchanges, the medicaid expenses. bruce will not like it. i home with is a constructive benefit bipartisan discussion. it will shrink, i hope not in a way where it will affect those that need heath care. host: mr bruce vladeck you have the last 60 seconds. bruce: the affordable care act was modelleded on a health policy in massachusetts. it says more about how the republican party shifted since the time of president nixon and the logistics of health care or policy have changed. if the republicans can repeal obama care and not take coverage from the 20 million people who gained it under obama care or a cut back on the benefits that women of reproductive age or people with psychiatric problems who have employer based insurance are getting under pare obama care, more power to them. if they do that, they can then prove that humans have nothing to do with global warming. host: we'll have to do it there. tom: cha

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we mentioned medicare.ealth care law and he repeated it in 2014, they used it as a medicare attack. democrats said boy, politifacts says this argument is wrong, it was to actually keep up medicare. republicans used that into a big attack. but you never know and it will be interested to see what issue they sgi to fight on. >> democrats were successful in 2005 and 2006 when george w. bush made privatizing social security part of his go did, to. and they won -- years later, they won the house and it was a fight that they won. so i wouldn't be surprised that medicare would be it. >> medicare politics has changed. gross overspending and deb in the obama years made the medicare sensitive voter aware that both sides, they have risk with both sides. they don't position either side has medicare as the number one priority. >> i don't want to say you won the argument on medicare, but you didn't lose it as badly as you used to, i would argue in 2014. is that fair to say? >> a lot of it was the fact that or course voter

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i talk about medicare for everybody, if you did extend medicare to everyone, you would have a much healthieration , spreading the cost over the entire population, and medicare would be much more sustainable. another thing people do not think about that would help medicare is if we passed comprehensive immigration reform. then we would have millions of young people not using the system but would be paying the medicare tax into the system. they would not be using benefits for the most part for 30 years or so. that is another thing we could do to really help shore up medicare and social security. he will service incoming budget ranking member. and paul krawzak joining us. paul: president-elect trump has announced he will nominate tom price, the chairman of the house budget committee, as his health and human services secretary. withave probably worked price more than most democrats on the budget committee. choicethink he is a good or a bad choice? for secretary. and if so, why. i think i could come up with a better nominee given some time. a very nice man, a gentleman, he is thoughtful, but he h

the second is medicare b. the third line you would have medicare is c or d and then f. what happens is the way people soft does it, it only reports out if there is medicare it reports out one line. it is agnostic to whether it is a, b, c, d or f. and so when it come tooz facets it is automatically read as medicare a. we are aware of that problem, i'm not sure there really is a resolving it unless people soft added a null line into it, otherwise it impacts 45 members and they aware and will be keeping track of it. the other areas of enrollment issues primarily resulted as-because of termination dates and this has been resolved and this is when the member was loaded into the system or when they were transitioned to people soft for whatever reason the termination date was not added and so that resulted in a error report, there was two cases where the spouse want listed and several cases where the spouse turned a month before the member actually termed and that could have been because of becoming medicare eligible which would not have been on our system but all those issues

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we had nine democratic senators we got to go along with medicare part "d" and medicare advantage creation, including senator kennedy. it took the sting out of it. it was partisan but far less partisan. it wasn't a knife fight. i think republicans probably will repeal it to create this cliff and you have to work with us to replace it. in my opinion, this is not going to be repeal and replace. it is going to be a giant tax reform bill, a lot of trade issues, medicaid reform. they are probably going to do like '97 and '90, a giant first reconciliation bill. they will have to have a handful of democrats. they will have a hard time passing it. i think they will repeal it quickly, because they spent six years screaming we hate obamacare. if they try to do replace plus these other tax prolicies, they are making a mistake. they will get a number of democrats that work on a global tax reform and budget, that will take all yaear long. it will moderate everything. it will take all the edges off of what would be a more radical one-party reform. >> let's talk about the substance. i think if you read t

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of damage in our opinion to medicare. >> because of obamacare medicare is going broke, medicare willcause of obamacare. med case is in fiscal straits so you have to deal with those issues for you're going to repeal and replace obamacare. >> none of that is true. the whole last soliloquy. medicare is not going broke. obamacare did not destroy medicare and medicaid and this is the way paul ryan has since he was running as vice president has tried to erode the public's confidence in these programs. is that a successful strategy. you've written a lot about the white working class towns. they like medicare. can paul ryan convince trump voters it's a good idea to turn it into voucher care. i don't know that you can convince them in the end but he can convince donald trump. he's going to come out and will have the biggest and most fabulous new medicare, so big, you'll be sick of winning, winning so much with this medicare and he's going -- the republicans don't say we want to voucherize it. they don't say the things that we say but that's the upshot. but they have a kind of convincing to so

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