let me ask a question of nan hayworth on the panel today.take a moment, congressman, if you will. republicans holding the middle class hostage. when you look at the polls, the polls show that by a significant margin, people feel that it's okay to let those tax cuts expire on the people who are in the higher tax brackets and protect the middle class if you look at it from $200,000 down or $250,000 depending on individual or family. >> everything we're doing in the house majority and do it with the votes we want to have as many votes from democratic colleagues as possible, john boehner especially is a ak menable speaker. everything we're doing is aimed at helping the hard working americans. the middle class prominently among them. it does not help our economy, it doesn't help jobs to take more from our citizens at a time when we need every dollar that can remain in the pockets of the people who work and save and invest and contribute to their communities. we need all of those dollars to stay there. government takes -- the tax dollars that gove

a robocall playing in your district, i want to play it and get your reaction. >> congresswoman nan hayworth has gone washington after taking nearly $130,000 from insurance companies, congresswoman hayworth wants to put insurance companies back in charge of our health care and let them deny coverage to people with pre-existing conditions like asthma, heart disease and cancer, cut back your health benefits, throw some kids off their parents' insurance and roll back prescription coverage for seniors. >> now, that sounds like fear-mongering to me. tell me where they're wrong. >> that is partisanship. it's fear-mongering. it's irresponsible, john. i support every goal of the 2010 law. i don't want to see everybody kicked off health insurance. i want to see everybody get the care they need. and let's not ignore the fact that everybody who voted for and everybody who supports the 2010 law is supporting taking a half trillion dollars of funding out of medicare. medicare is going broke. we need to protect our seniors. and the best way to protect our seniors right now is to make sure that that fundin

. >> another conversation about health care with republican congresswoman nan hayworth of new york. she is, by the way, the only female physician in congress. i think she's going to have some particular insight into health care. for continuing coverage of the health care debate keep it on cnn. monitor cnn.com throughout the day. >> i'll get ali off the ledge and switch gears. >>> banned for life. this does not bode well for lance armstrong. three of lance armstrong's closest cycling advisers, two doctors and a trainer have received what's really considered to be the death penalty in sports from the u.s. anti-doping agency. they were all associated with lance armstrong's former u.s. postal service cycling team. the agency says they were trafficking in performance enhancing drugs during all or part of lance armstrong's seven tour de france victories. armstrong himself is not part of that. but he is fighting charges as well that he used banned drugs. he filed a lawsuit. it was dismissed. he went ahead and refiled that lawsuit in a flash, really. all within a matter of days. a lawsuit a

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now, i'm joined by a couple of my colleagues and i will first go to doctor nan hayworth, an ophthalmologist, she held up a note earlier, but she didn't realize my eyes are not good enough to read the note, but an ap that will ophthalmologist from new york, but -- an but an ophthalmologist from new york, who will talk about this. ms. hayworth: i understand your name may be slightly limited, so dr. harris and i will be more than happy to lead this discussion as we go along and i thank you for all the work you do on this very important subject. the american public has much to be concerned about with regard to the massive 2010 health law. and this was, of course, passed on a party line basis, unfortunately. i and dr. harris are two of the representatives who were elected in part in response to the public's grave concerns about this act. and if i can direct everyone's attention to the chart that dr. cassidy has revealed next to him, you can see what is projected to happen in terms of medicaid spending alone as the years go by and of course under the terms of the affordable care act, it's like pu