billion less under this bipartisan bill than we proposed two years earlier which was so draconian, so unserious. we're proposing the federal government increases the spending over ten years by 3.5% instead of 5.2% and by the way, if we reform government, put the patient in the center of health care, give states the ability to customize and tailor their benefits to populations like food stamps and medicaid, and have pro-growth policies that put people back to work, clean up the tax system, have this energy renaissance fully developed, then we will get people back to work. then we'll increase take home pay. get the deficit down and as a result according to cbo have more prosperity and faster economic growth. it's true. you kapt cut your way to a balanced budget. you have to grow your way by growing your economy. and government as it is currently designed needs to be reformed. if we stay on this path we are guaranteeing the next generation has a bankrupt medicare program, bankrupt social security program, bankrupt medicaid program. bankrupt country. by 2024 according to cbo, three programs, medica

billion less under this bipartisan bill than we proposed two years earlier which was so draconian, so unserious we're proposing the federal government increases the spending over ten years by 3.5% instead of 5.2% and by the way, if we reform government, put the patient in the center of health care, give states the ability to customize and tailor their benefits to populations like food stamps and medicaid, and have pro-growth policies that put people back to work, clean up the tax system, have this energy renaissance fully developed, then we will get people back to work. then we'll increase take home pay. get the deficit down and as a result according to cbo have more prosperity and faster economic growth. it's true. you kapt cut your way to a balanced budget. you have to grow your way by growing your economy. and government as it is currently designed needs to be reformed. if we stay on this path we are guaranteeing the next generation has a bankrupt medicare program, bankrupt social security program, bankrupt medicaid program. bankrupt country. by 2024 according to cbo, three programs, medicai

i would go so far as to say the president of the united states is just unserious with a comment likethat is best placed between the ferns on saturday night live. he wants to posit a false choice. obamacare were nothing. -- or nothing. if you are not for obamacare, in his mind then you are for nothing. that is a false choice. there are many, many different options. we have several bills and the house, one by chairman tom price , who is a physician. the republican study committee has a bill. there were over 200 health care related bills. he said something in that quote which he needs to be called out on. the president has said that he will meet with anybody, do anything at any time to improve the law, to improve health care. he made that comment back in december. i wrote a letter and i got 33 of my colleagues to sign onto it. we did not talk about repealing anything in that letter. although i am for repealing obamacare. the letter was about a number of things that we can do on health care, expand the use of hsa's, competition across state lines, high risk pools, etc. we sent that lette