the same for medicare advantage. with an increasing percentage of people with medicare opting for medicare advantage plans it is more critical than ever weork together to provide high quality coverage to people with medicare advantage while ensuring people receive accurate information and understand their plan choices and benefits. we will soon share the 2024 medicare advantage rule with the nal rate announcements. we appreciate your feedback and are reviewing your comments now. there's been a lot of attention on the proposals and advanced notice to make technical updates and improve payment accuracy in medicare advantage. i want to be clear that all of c.m.s.'s proposals have two central goals, make sure medicare advantage program pete the healthcare needs you serve and c.m.s. meets its obligation to pay the plans accurately. c.m.s. has been intentional it the proposals to fulfill our responsibilities to be a good steward of the medicare program. our proposals ensure that medicare dollars are used efficiently and ef

advantage with an increase with people with medicare opting for medicare advantage plans it is moretical than ever that we work together to provide high quality coverage for people with medicare advantage while ensuring that people receive accurate information and understand the plans, choices and benefits. we will soon share the 2024 medicare advantagere final rule along with the final rate announcement. we appreciate your feedback and are reviewing the comments now. there's been a lot of attention on the proposal for the advanced notice to make technical updates and improve payment accuracy in medicare advantage. i want to be clear all of the proposals have two central goals. to make sure that medicare advantage programs made to the healthcare needs of the people of servant cms meets its obligations under the law to pay medicare advantage plans accurately. cms has been intentional in the proposal to fulfill the responsibility to be a good steward of the medicare program. our proposals ensure that medicare dollars are efficient and effective. we've also been intentional to ensure t

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program puts out for medicare recipients gets to service a medicare recipient. and what we're finding is that too often programs are gaming the system. and, for example, as you heard earlier, the programs, some of the plans are claiming that medicare beneficiary is sicker than what the person may be with, as a result of upquoting that person, you get more reimbursement even though you may not provide the care that a sick person under those circumstances would need. but what i will tell you is that at the end of the day whatever we have done with the rate notice, it does not cut any benefit provided by medicare and, in fact, it actually provides more resources to those who provide services under medicare itself. >> i want to shift gears and talk about medicare taxes. mr. secretary the, the president's proposed budget raises medicare taxes because the president claims to care about the solvency of the medicare program and that the wealthy should pay their fair share. however, there's mounting speculation -- and this is as report in the "wall street journal" -- tha

nearly half of all seniors who have medicare use the medicare managed care model. this is critically important. we are making sure when the final gavel falls on this it will not only move us in the right direction with more efficiency but it will also protect every medicare benefits from seniors and disabled americans who use the program. >> i encourage you to look at this carefully and if you haven't already done it to conduct an impact analysis to determine how the model you are currently considering changes to what effect different groups of beneficiaries. i think you'll find once again these proposals are going in the wrong direction. let me move on to one where we can agree. that's on telehealth. as the budget request mentions my colleagues and and i canr late lester to advance the crucial to your extension of wide-ranging telehealth flexibilities, including for medicare beneficiaries. without further action these policies will expire atct the ed of 2024th creating aes coverage cliff for c tens of millions of seniors across the country. senator becerra, i real

, medicare is a guarantee. high healthcare and americans have earned this benefit with each paycheck. so with this budget president focus on making sureoc billionaires and the very wealthy pay their fair share. we strengthen medicare renegotiating a 32 lower the price of prescription drugs and extend medicare solvency for 25 years. now, what we're hearing from the other side is giving a free pass to billionaires, all these budgets working out so that billionaires basically are left untouched. and now we are seeing the full faith and credit of the united threatened. so what i would like to do is make sure that you have a chance to make it clear what the differences are with respect to these issues. the president budget, ines my view, does not medicare benefits. by taking steps like raising the eligibility age, reducing access to care, or basically just handing everything over to a bunch of big insurance companies. is that factually correct? the president made it very clear he will not propose any budget that cut

social security and medicare? caller: look to people and companies, organizations that pay their fair share. as simple as that. host: it does not do enough though. caller: you can find out easily they need to raise the limit. that will create a lot of income as well. host: race and come on what, social security? -- raise the income on what, social security? caller: yes. host: the tax cap? caller: yes. host: stay with us because i want to show folks this new york times interactive graphs on their website. what you have to cut if you take off his off the table? if you say do not touch defense, medicare, or social security looking to where the money has to come from. you would have to make a 70% cut on medicaid, obamacare, and each chip program and food assistance, military retirement and antipoverty programs. all of the spending would take a 70% cut, veterans health, transportation, education, law enforcement, research, and foreign affairs. if you said no defense cuts, we were formed social security and medicare and

maybe they found religion on social security and medicare.ure hope so, all kidding aside, but i will believe it when i see it. senator scott has been saying for a year for a long time that he wants to sunset medicare. every five years, it can go away or you can reduce it. you can be whatever you want, but every five years has to be voted on. now he says never mind. don't need to do that. he didn't say never mind about medicaid and the. they are still on the chopping block. make no mistake, if maga republicans try to tackle with people self-care by cutting medicaid and the affordable care act, i will stop them. [applause] >> folks, here's the bottom line. the work that we've done to get more people affordable health care erred bring down the cost is going to reduce the deficit significantly. it's making a real difference in peoples lives. it means more security, more dignity for millions of families. we've got more work to do, but we've made a lot of progress. i was from the -- i was in the northern part of your state and a woman stood up and

medicare provides -- [applause] we'll drive down prices because we give medicare the power -- the samehat the department of veterans affairs has. they can negotiate what they're going to pay for whatever drugs they're prescribing to their -- to the military. well, know many of you are healthcare professionals. you understand this better than anybody else. for example, insulin was invented 100 years ago. and the guy who invented it decided not to patent it because he wanted it to be available. it only costs $10 a vial to make -- $10 a vial. if you count everything, you expand it, you could say -- you get up to 13 bucks if you talk about packaging, shipping, and the rest. and guess what? they're being charged hundreds of dollars a vial. so, beginning january 1 of this year, even though we passed the law last year -- it wasn't until january 1 -- i kept telling people it was coming -- we capped the cost of insulin at $35. [applause] $35 for seniors on medicare. and, folks, if it had been in effect in 2020, nearly 11,000 nevada seniors would've saved an average of $439 on their insulin. but

reject the cuts to medicare wasn't it something?hey all stood up. they all stood up and they are all on camera. got older pictures. like i said, i believe in conversion. maybe they found as my grandfather said, maybe they found religion. but i'll believe it when i see it. for example, senator rick scott of florida, the guy has been saying for a year for a long time that he wants to sunset social security and medicare every five years. what that means is, every five years it comes up, if you don't vote for it back in existence again with the same exactly like it goes away. now he says, never mind. don't need to do that. if maga re- if maga republicans try to take away people's healthcare by gutting medicaid and the affordable care act, i will stop them. [applause] folks, here's the bottom line. the work that we've done to get more people affordable healthcare and bring down costs is going to reduce the deficit significantly. it's making a real difference in people's lives. it means more security, more dignity for millions of families

now, instead of paying whatever the drug company wants to charge you, medicare, medicare, will be abletiate prices. medicare provides -- [applause] >> drive down prices because we give medicare the power, same power the department of veterans affairs has, they can negotiate what they're going to pay for whatever drug they're prescribing to the military. well, i know many of you are health care professionals. you understand this better than anybody else. for example, insulin was invented 100 years ago and the guy who invented it decided not to patent is because he wanted it to be available. it only costs $10 a vile to make. $10 a vial. if you count everything expanded, up to $13 if you talk about packaging, shipping and the rest and guess what? they're being charged hundreds of dollars a vial. so beginning van january 1st even though we passed the law last year, january 1st telling people it's coming, capped the cost of insulin at $35. $35 for seniors on medicare. [applause] >> and folks, if it had been in effect in 2020 nearly 11,000 nevada seniors would have saved an average of $439 o

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social security and medicare? caller: look to people and companies, organizations that pay their fair share. as simple as that. host: it does not do enough though. caller: you can find out easily they need to raise the limit. that will create a lot of income as well. host: race and come on what, social security? -- raise the income on what, social security? caller: yes. host: the tax cap? caller: yes. host: stay with us because i want to show folks this new york times interactive graphs on their website. what you have to cut if you take off his off the table? if you say do not touch defense, medicare, or social security looking to where the money has to come from. you would have to make a 70% cut on medicaid, obamacare, and each chip program and food assistance, military retirement and antipoverty programs. all of the spending would take a 70% cut, veterans health, transportation, education, law enforcement, research, and foreign affairs. if you said no defense cuts, we were formed social security and medicare and

medicare, we have proposals to extend the medicare trust fund by 25 years. the actuaries at cms put out a report. don't take our word for it. these policies will extend medicare by making sure our net investment income tax that was always meant to go into the trust fund is actually going into the fund and making sure that they paid 1.2 percent more into medicare to make sure that the goals -- loopholes are closed and making sure the people who are supposed to pay in actually pay in. those policies will extend the trust fund by 25 years. sen. whitehouse: thank you very much. ranking member grassley, then senator murray. sen. grassley: omb puts out the annual pay-as-you-go act report. the report clearly shows that last year the reconciliation bill added 190 $9 billion in deficit to the budget as omb is required to maintain since majority party tried to claim phony tax cap savings from the laws of irs funding last year but legally required to produce what this administration was forced to admit, and increased deficit. i'm asking you to put that report in the re

[applause] for the seniors on medicare.t has been in effect since 2020 nearly 11000 seniors would've saved an average of $439 on their insulin but i have been calling of my colleagues to cap the cost for everyone now including 200,000 children who have type one diabetes who need ansell and every day to stay alive i was doing a town hall meeting in northern rigid on —- virginia last year the woman stood up a very sophisticated lady and set i have two girls both have type one diabetes and i cannot afford this we have to ration insulin between them talk about being deprived of your dignity look at your child knowing if they don't get the insulin their life is endangering you have to stand there are not know what to do my budget will require it and eli lilly the biggest insulin maker announced to make it available for $35 and then another drug maker announced their cutting the price of insulin as well. another aspect of the inflation reduction act but as a drug company raising prices faster than inflation have to pay back the d

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especially medicare solvency. claiming the proposals you're making will extend medicare for another 25 years or so. so why no proposal for extending social security solvency, which is almost -- director young: thanks for bringing up medicare. you're right. we have a proposal that will extend the life by at least 25 years. we hope our friends on the hill will take us up on those proposals. and i've been very clear and the president has. we believe the greatest existential threat to social security today is those who want to cut it. so our position, his position is that is not on the table, not on his watch, and that's what this budget says. reporter: so will the president have a proposal in the future for extending social security's lifeline so that people like your grandmother will be able to get their full benefits come 10, 15, 20 years from now? director young: i hope she's with us that long. i really do. [laughter] but what this president will do is make sure he has a backstop and will stop attack on the progra

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and one of the highlights is the president's plan to keep medicare fund it. washington correspondent alexandra limon join us live with the very latest. good morning. >> morning. the white house says that the president's plan would fund medicare by raising taxes on the highest earning americans. at the state of the union address, democrats and republicans cheered for the idea of not slashing social security or medicare. >> i did is unveiling his budget proposal will addressed what americans care most about. >> extending medicare solvency by 25 years. the white house says the plan will also lower some costs for older americans who receive medicare without costing a penny in benefits. that is great. >> to pay for it all. president biden proposes raising medicare taxes on americans who earn more than $400,000 a year from 3.8% to 5%. the plan would also close loopholes to ensure capital gains and other investment income is subject to the medicare tax. massive tax increases more spending, but republicans aren't happy with the president's proposal and say they plan

last fall he cut $280 billion out of medicare. a loophole i put up when he went into florida not to pay half a billion dollars worth or half million dollars worth of medicare taxes and now he wants to eliminate the loophole, so this guy is a hypocrite. he doesn't sit down to try to solve any problems he just goes out and you know has platitudes but there is no proposal. there are ways to make sure we preserve the benefits of social security and medicare, but you don't do it by raising taxes, spending out the kazoo. he has no idea how to balance a budget and take of these programs. >> john: on that point on this op-ed where he said about those he said the wealth gap is much different today than it was back when medicare was created pure and he says "when medicare was past the wealthiest 1% of americans didn't have more than five times the wealth of the bottom 50% combined. it only makes sense that some adjustments be made to reflect that reality today barry what do you say to that? >> the income inequality is caused by big, big, bi

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that they don't get their medicare payment. so these are responsibilities that we have to people that we're going to have to make. who will pay that? it's the second generation. that promise that our parents and grandparents gave us, we won't afford that to our children. we've been spending like drunken sailors. >> neil: the one thing that the president offered as a way to put republicans on the spot, not to play politics, with this, here's how i'm going to shore up medicare with this 5% sur tax, some other measures that are extended shelf life. he's going to do it with tax hikes. that puts the onus on the republicans what are you going to do about it? >> i'm nonpartisan on it. back in the day, the republicans were fiscally more responsible. mitch mcconnell played the trump to donald trump said nobody lost the election by spending too much. both parties have been using it as a political football to get re-elected. somebody says we need a 25-year plan here or we're messing up the next generation below us. >> neil: you got it rig