host:medicaid and medicare spending in 2021 medicare grew by 8.4% to $900.8 billion in spending thats a 21% of the total national health expenditures. 734 million in terms of specifics for medicare spending in 2021 there was $829 billion in medicare spending that is 10% of the federal budget in 2021. let's get to calls for our guests. the executive director director of families, usa and president of the paradigm health institute talking medicare and medicaid. the issues facing congress. good morning, democrat line. caller: hi, i am -- i don't understand why there is sewed much advertisement of medicare or medicaid, i'm not sure much. it's called advantage. what is the difference, like, i am insured. i'm 94 years old but that has, i am covered. at one time when i was on a vintage many years ago a person advised me get off of advantage go into medicare itself. i need to know what is the difference between the two? host: thank you for watching all these years. brian you want to tackle medicare advantage? guest: you sound great for 97 years young. it is a part of medicare it is about hal

sunset social security and medicare every five years. now, it's not likely to get voted out, but i tell you what, it's likely it got cut drastically if you had to do it every five years. the very idea the senator from florida wants to put social security and medicare on the chopping block every five years i find to be somewhat outrageous, so outrageous that you might not even believe it. i won't do it again, but well, i will. twelve-point american rescue plan. one of the points, "all federal legislation sunsets every five years. if the law is worth keeping, the congress can pass it all over again." look, if it doesn't get reauthorized, it goes out of existence. if congress wants it, they got to keep it and they got to vote on the same thing. and then, in case there was any doubt, just yesterday, he confirmed that he still he still likes his proposal. well, i guarantee you, it will not happen. i will veto it. i'll defend social security and medicare. [applause] well, senator scott is not the only one. senator johnson of wisconsin, in his

caller: well, medicare.he republicans, the red states are probably biggest on the medicare budget. you talk about the poor states, alabama, louisiana, mr. b. they can bring in less in everything. louisiana, 29 billion and half of that goes to medicare. it is rapport -- real poor and rural red and they do not deal with their own health issues. louisiana is a poor state. at the end of the mississippi, it is the country's toilet. it is a military dumping, military burning. alabama, the same thing. arkansas, the same thing. mississippi right next door. the same thing. they do not clean the water. jackson, mississippi. you cannot drink the water. it tastes like the red river. this downriver from the united states. it is the toilet of our country. host: we have been hearing a lot of conversation about social security and medicare. this is audio from senate majority leader mitch mcconnell speaking thursday with long-term kentucky radio host terry minors talking about his opposition to senator scott plans to sunset

caller: well, medicare.he republicans, the red states are probably biggest on the medicare budget. you talk about the poor states, alabama, louisiana, mr. b. they can bring in less in everything. louisiana, 29 billion and half of that goes to medicare. it is rapport -- real poor and rural red and they do not deal with their own health issues. louisiana is a poor state. at the end of the mississippi, it is the country's toilet. it is a military dumping, military burning. alabama, the same thing. arkansas, the same thing. mississippi right next door. the same thing. they do not clean the water. jackson, mississippi. you cannot drink the water. it tastes like the red river. this downriver from the united states. it is the toilet of our country. host: we have been hearing a lot of conversation about social security and medicare. this is audio from senate majority leader mitch mcconnell speaking thursday with long-term kentucky radio host terry minors talking about his opposition to senator scott plans to sunset

we will not cut social security and medicare. i will believe it when i see it, but we are both going to lay down our budgets pretty soon. the speaker of the house discussions so far. he said the first week in march, why do we just lay out our budgets? our people will sit and compare them. decide where we can make a cup -- a compromise where we can make a compromise. $2 trillion is what i'm talking about. by the way, the last fellow that had this job would've never showed up for the transition. he increased the federal debt which took over 200 years to accumulate. that's what the debt is. every penny owed since the inception of this nation and the interest rate that followed. that's what it is. in four years, added to that federal debt by 25%. by the way, $2 trillion tax cut. guess what? didn't pay for a single solitary sense of it. i will not cut a single social security medicare benefit, in fact going to extend the trust for decades. i will not raise taxes for anyone making over 400 grand. like i said, you think a trillionaire s

folks on fixed income rely on medicare to get by. they require a greater degree of social security and dignity. that's what my plan offers. to many americans laying in bed at night, staring at the ceiling, wondering what happens if i get sick, if i get cancer, what happens? we'll have to sell the house. how are we going to pay our bills. i know my dad did that when he lost insurance at the company he worked for. look, i get it. i signed the inflation reduction act and took on the most powerful interests we've been fighting for years, pharma, to bring down health care costs so you could have a better night's sleep although we passed it in the middle of last summer, and we let people, no one saw it. because it does not take effect. until january 1st of this year president. not a minute too soon. one in ten americans have diabetes. millions need everyday insulin to stay alive. insulin has been around for 100 years. the guy who invented it didn't patent it because he thought it should be available to everybody. it costs drug companies ro

defend the social security medicare system. build the economy from the bottom up and the middle out. we know we can do this. i've long said it's never ever, and i mean this from the bottom of my heart, it's never been a good bet to bet against the american people, and i can honestly say [ applause ] we got a lot more to do, but i've never been more optimistic about america's future. just remember who we are, for god's sake, we're the united states of america. [ applause ] nothing, nothing is beyond our capacity if we work together. so god bless you all and may god protect our troops. ♪♪ >> all right. president biden in tampa talking a lot about medicare and social security and creating jobs, and why this should matter to floridians. it is getting interesting down there in florida. very interesting, and let me explain why it is so interesting. over the past couple of days, we have learned a lot about what the next couple of years are going to look like. if you have been listening as you likely have, you have likely made this con

-- through medicare. it would eliminate $159,000 in savings and lower drug costs. that just means your tax dollars are going to be saved 159 thousand dollars to do what we are doing right now. it doesn't cut medicare or medicaid or drug available. it cuts the cost. and by the way, on the topic of medicare, the distinguished senator -- senator rick scott from florida, who was responsible for getting republicans elected to the senate, is a little bit in hot water right now. because his plan is to sunset medicare and social security. meaning if you don't reauthorize every five years, sunset. it will go away. as i said in the state of the union, if anyone tries to get rid of social security or medicare, i will veto it. [cheers and applause] that is the republican dream, i am their nightmare. look, folks. you saw i sent on the floor, i said no, no, liar, liar. i said, that means you are not going to cut medicare or social security? it is all on film, let's see who votes to cut it. look. here is rick scott's re

were going to have to save medicare there really was turned billion dollars of savingsca in medicaree it one last call for home state of kentucky you were on with congressman guthrie. >> caller: hello? >> how are things in daviess county today? sweet it's pretty cold and icy pair. kentuckians are happy people aren't they? >> caller: it is a beautiful state. and i have made a good living here. the only reason i'm calling is we don't have very good infrastructure. i live pretty much way out in the county. i am almost like hancock county. cooks and exactly we were talking about. >> caller: were not getting any internet service you just about got to have it. the only way to get it now is to buy it over the satellite and it cost too much. i call on the cell phone, the cell phone is pretty good. but the landline is real power. my wife is disabled and she is to have hers landline. i don't make you aware of that. i am in the sadist is beautiful. >> thank you i comment on that. the judge in hancock county, chick roberson i are absolutely working on this. hoping some the infrastructure money s

host:medicaid and medicare spending in 2021 medicare grew by 8.4% to $900.8 billion in spending that is a 21% of the total national health expenditures. 734 million in terms of specifics for medicare spending in 2021 there was $829 billion in medicare spending that is 10% of the federal budget in 2021. let's get to calls for our guests. the executive director director of families, usa and president of the paradigm health institute talking medicare and medicaid. the issues facing congress. good morning, democrat line. caller: hi, i am -- i don't understand why there is sewed much advertisement of medicare or medicaid, i'm not sure much. it's called advantage. what is the difference, like, i am insured. i'm 94 years old but that has, i am covered. at one time when i was on a vintage many years ago a person advised me get off of advantage go into medicare itself. i need to know what is the difference between the two? host: thank you for watching all these years. brian you want to tackle medicare advantage? guest: you sound great for 97 years young. it is a part of medicare it is about h

i'm not for cutting social security and medicare. he pro prosed it year after year after year to reduce medicare and social security. i have never done. that i don't believe in. that we have to preserve the benefits. >> you say he is twisting your words. he said some republicans want social security and medicare to sunset. you wrote, i suggest the following. all federal legislation sun sets in five years. of if the laws were keeping congress can pass it again. you are a republican. medicare and social security are federal legislation. and you said if it's worth keeping, congress can pass it again. but no one, i don't think, has confidence that if something comes up for a vote every five years that congress is going to be able to make sure it stays. especially something that vitally important to so many. zblr kaitlan, i've been clear. i'm not going to do it. and let's remember, just what, a few months ago, all democrats voted and joe biden signed a bill to cut $208 b80 billion ou medicare. >> that's not true, senator. we talked about

so security, medicare is also off the books now high in medicare like want to 1000000 seniors, americans have to pay in some very 1st paycheck. they start to light much all great . and we're proud we are a stand up for seniors with will not medicare this morning. in the bible that earned it, has anyone drive the guts on security? which apparently no one's going to do, have anyone to medicare. most often i'll be don't not allow them to take away be taken away, not today, not tomorrow, not ever, but apparently is not going to be a problem next month for my fiscal plan, last, my republican friends lay down their plan as well. i really mean, but sit down together and discuss our mutual plans together with the maturity, gonna cut the depths about another 2 trillion dollars and i won't cut a single bit of medicare or so security. in fact, we're gonna extend the medicare trust fund least 2 decades. that's for the next starting. how do we make, keep it solid? right? well, will not raise tax anyone make an under foreigner graham but will pay for it way. we talked about that by making sure that th

, called medicare advantage.all it medicare disadvantage. so over half now of the elderly beneficiaries under medicare are under corporations, health plans like unitedhealth care a,etna, cigna, and others. that is the problem. there corporatized and what the democrats are accusing republicans of going after medicare. the same social security. congressman john larson proposed last year and increase in benefits. there has not been an increase in benefits in 40 years. the democrats send make the republicans filibuster. make them get on the senate floor. show the american people what they're up to. the democrats did not do it. it is always unfinished business by the democrats. it is easy to go after republicans on this but then they go after the big health care industry, the drug industry. amy: that is interesting and i just want to say as you are speaking to us, we're showing an image of page nine of capitol hill citizen, medicare for all is but bernie sanders backs away , the staffights, and is has afl-cio aarp pus

we do have to save medicare. in the reduction inflation act money was taken out of medicare. if you take the rebate rule, $288 billion was taken out of medicare with no republican votes. taken from medicare. and used to spend on things on medicare but other programs i am not sure. if they want to have an intellectual discussion on saving medicare, that's going to be something we're going to have to work on over the next two years. i will now yield two minutes to my good friend from new york, the gentleman from new york. mr. mole narrow -- molinaro. mr. molinaro: the emergency is over. the president declared the public health emergency over. it has been extended a dozen times, including twice, during a "60 minutes." 1,100 days ago. the public health emergency was warranted. i know this. i lived it as a county executive where i took immediate emergency action to protect our most vulnerable and helped to save lives. i saw firsthand the flexibilities granted under such an emergency. expanded -- expanding access to care and services during a time of essential need. i also simultan

medicare. >> not one republican in the house of representatives is talking about changes medicare or social security benefits, not one. of course, the president could not name one. we want to be respectful, but let's stick to the facts a little bit. it was out of touch with reality. reporter: president went after oil companies and calling for quadruple tack on corporate stock buybacks, he spent 4 lines on the crisis at the border. >> president wouldn't come to capitol without putting a fence up but he won't secure our own borders. elizabeth: edward lawrence thank you. >> joining us now congressman french hill. from house financial services. president biden is attacking republicans. claiming they want to kill social security. he is talking about senator scott's idea to look at all federal programs every few years, but what president biden was a senator, he said to cut the deficit he demanded ledg legislation to sunset and cut spending on social security, medicare and v.a. benefits. he brought it

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first, let's start with medicare.ow, if congress does not then, medicare will be insolvent in 2028. that used to be a date far away. it isn't anymore. that would mean if, again, nothing happens, the payments to medical providers would be cut about 10%. social security, a little bit longer, but still a jor consideration here is that retirees, that retiree fund would be insolvent in 2034. and that would mean, if congress does nothing, cuts of about 20% to benefits. another way to think about that for social security. geoff, is anyone in this country who's 56-years-old or younger would see their social security benefits cut by at least 20% if congress does nothing. geoff: wow. so, you have got more than, what, 60 million americans enrolled in these programs right now. what are the possible solutions? lisa: ok, let's go over that, because it's not easy. there's one reason they haven't done this, is because these aren't easy decisions. someone's going to have to make sacrifices. number one, one thing that they could do is

then he started saying that democrats tried to cut medicare spending.was not a cut. it was allowing medicare to negotiate for cheaper drugs, and then he tried to use something i said -- i was very surprised by this -- back in 2017 as his defense to that. take a listen to this little excerpt. >> what passing the inflation reduction act, reducing drug spending is not cutting benefits to medicare. >> okay, kaitlan, let me just read you something jake tapper said. this is back when republicans were proposing reducing the cost of medicaid. he said -- jake tapper said i know the trump administration is excited that medicaid will go back to the states where they have more control and can experiment and be more efficient, but without question $880 billion is a cut. >> so he didn't include the quote where i talked about that the cut was analyzed by the congressional budget office. here's what i actually said back in 2017. >> according to the congressional budget office the health care bill that just passed the house would cut $880 billion over ten years from med

we will not cut medicare. republicans have accused president biden of misrepresenting their proposals, a handful of gop lawmakers have floated making changes to the programs. >> if we want to talk about the debt and spending it is the entitlements program. >> we are done to eight small fraction of the federal pie, so entitlement reform is a must for us not to become grease. >> we talk every year about how we are going to fix medicare and social security. here is what is happening, no one that i know of wants to sunset medicare or social security, but we do not even lk about it. medicare goes bankrupt in four years, social security goes bankrupt in 12 years. geoff: the president took us a to florida today are missing to protect the programs crucial to seniors. pres. biden: focus on fixed income rely on social security and medicare to get by. they deserve a greater sense of security and dignity. i know a lot of republicans, their dream is to cut social security and medicare. let me say this. if that is her dream

medicare in 2026 and social security in 2030.se things are the benefits are reduced. that's a fact. that's not a law that anyone is putting forward. >> but you do acknowledge there's republicans who do want to sunset every federal legislation after five years and that there is a senator who want that after a year to turn it to discretionary. >> this is important because -- yes, it is. >> if congress does not work together. i'm old enough to remember when senator monahan, back in the -- i think it was 1983 or '84, got together, and came up with a plan to save social security. it affected people my age because then when i get to age 65, the retirement age now is 67. okay. it was a long time in phasing in. but they came together and worked out a problem because they saw what was dead ahead. and what was dead ahead was a reduction in benefits for people depending on those programs. there's no reason in the world we can't have those types of discussions. but we can't have them if people are talking from political talking points. >> i

of $280 billion take it out of medicare to pay for something else. i have a proposal to do that. >> new "wall street journal" op-ed is arguing president biden is taking aim at governor desantis of florida. the biden team wants you to know about his previous job. mr. desantis was in the u.s. congress where he voted for paul ryan's budget blueprint. the blueprint called for entitlement reforms. mr. biden is warning mr. desantis he will pummel him with his history should he run. let's bring in steve hilton host of the next revolution. is all of this a fight about the substance of social security and medicare or is it the first fight of the 2024 political season? >> a clearance, it is not about the substance or the policy, it is about the politics. the one rule that you can be sure of in politics is that the most important thing for any candidate or party is to control the agenda, to control the conversation, what is being discussed. very difficult to persuade people there is not that many persuadeable voters one way or the other. what you can do is shap

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rick scott cares so much about the medicare budget -- >> -- >> he has to pay a fine for defrauding medicareother ex colleague of yours, mike lee of utah. look at that face. he was aghast when biden dared suggest republicans might want to cut social security and medicare. yeah, we will say it a few times, aghast. -- in private. >> i am here right now to tell you one thing. that you probably have never heard of from a politician. it will be my objective to phase out social security, two -- come and get rid of -- >> rick scott just wants to sunset it. mike lee wants to pull it up by the roots. we were talking on the show about fox hosts saying one thing on the air and one thing on private. republican senators seem to do the same. >> i think it's not just republican senators. thanks to you guys in the media, mehdi, for bringing and saving all of those clips, and all the things that have been said over the many many years. again, this is not something new. and they can feign their ignition and express their outrage. but the fact is, for decades -- for decades! -- they have been wanting to do thi

biden just cut 280 billion from medicare. biden improperly used a loophole to dodge half a million dollars in taxes that should have gone to medicare. now that biden has ripped off medicare for a half million he wants to close the loophole and raise your taxes. biden should resign. >> harris: fox business correspondent edward lawrence live from the white house. i understand in your reporting you will remind us exactly that kumbaya moment the president said he would work with republicans a couple nights ago. >> the president -- what happened to that, right? the president landing in 45 minutes in tampa, florida likely going to ask to strengthen social security and medicare and will pull out that brochure like we saw in wisconsin where senator rick scott's brochure for his plan to sunset every federal program every five years. listen. >> what a hypocrite. he accuses republicans that they want to cut medicare and social security. i never suggested that. i said we have to preserve them, right? my plan i said we ought to tell the p

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they're saying they should not come from social security and medicare. that is a post ture of the republican leadership. rick scott's plan because of the highlighting of every five years federal program according to rick scott said he never intended to include medicare and social security. he didn't need to specify. he's defended that all along. today a change. he included that language in his plan saying all federal legislation sunsets in five years with specific exceptions of social security, medicare, national security, veteran's benefits and other essential services. he went on to say in that plan note to president biden, senator schumer and mcconnell as you know, this was never intended to apply to social security, medicare or the u.s. navy. so a move by rick scott to try to deflect criticism and scott himself facing reelection next year undoubtedly will be an issue in his race but trying to make clear, pamela, he never meant to touch entitlement programs as republicans are calling for spending cuts and rick scott saying that's not what he's talking

i meant medicare and medicaid. i meant veterans benefits.ry single solitary thing in the government. and i not only tried it once, i tried it twice, i tried it a third time, and i tried it a forty time. fourth time. ashley: a pretty interesting, isn't it? senator rick scott, republican from florida, joins me now. respond to that, senator. >> well, what a hypocrite. if he a accuses republicans that they want to cut medicare and social security. i've never suggesterred that. i said we've got to preserve them, right? my plan i said we ought to chill how we're going to the preserve them, but he wants to accuse us of something he's done, he tried. he had a bill that would do it, and he's fought and fought and fought to cut medicare and social security. so, i mean, what a hypocrite. he's coming to my state right now. i put an ad up. i mean, the guy ought to resign. he's a complete failure, and he's lied about these things. ashley: you know, he's going to be the on this campaign trail today. he continues to the hammer away despite your response and

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he said you'd like to reform social security and medicare, what does that mean? what does reforming look like? >> the problem right now, there's misconceptions like they don't contribute to the budget deficit, that's actually not true. this year payroll taxes and premiums do not cover all benefits. this year the federal government have to spend $420 billion from general revenue to pay social security and medicare. that annual transfer will go for 20 billion this year to 1.9 trillion that's why deficits are growing. over 30 years, medicare and social security face a shortfall of $116 trillion according to the congressional budget office. that's not my cap, that's the budget office, $116 trillion. that means in order just to pay all benefits we either need to raise taxes by $116 trillion, cut spending by $116 trillion or borrow $116 trillion. most of that is that it care. medicare is 80 trillion in short, social security is 36 trillion short and even if we save the trust fund, social security would be 33 trillion short set of 36 trillion short. what i would like to

we have medicare challenges.his huge looming fiscally irresponsible budget that has been erected and we continue to live under. >> that should be something we talk about with the budget? >> i do. i think there is a difference between the debt, you know, the debt is what we spend. so we owe that. we just don't want to be continuously overspending. so and then how are we going to spend the money? what's the priority? ukraine is another -- it's not a blank check. so i have always advocated for, you know, john f. kennedy, we will pay the price, bear any burden to protect the survival of liberty. but a blank check is extraordinarily dangerous when we give arms and ammunition to a country that we don't know exactly where those arms and ammunition, what they are doing, what they are for, what the end goals are and what is the plan in ukraine. that disturbs me. >> the white house would argue they know where the money is coming when it goes to weapon. what happened in the house chamber last night, the heckling of presiden