you ever doubt these vouchers with hud -- you have worked out these vouchers with todd. and as bevin said earlier, you have great community partners. i am so proud of you folks. you have been at it for so many years. we're glad to keep your funding at a level -- i cannot wait to open that otis street with the. i also want to thank the chronicle and its seasonal sharing fund, the salvation army. they're wonderful partners. if you have an apartment, and i am speaking to the rest of the private sector and the city, or even the public sector in the city, if you have a unit that is available, please offer it up. these are great vouchers. there is money behind it. there is serious money behind it. but we need the other side of it to be successful. at the heart of anybody in business, they want to help. we just have to get suet. we want to make sure we present ourselves rights, and at the heart of this --i want to thank another property owner. judy is here. you know, if anybody out in the public wants to add to what visa is doing or others in terms of moving costs and furniture

it would turn medicare into a voucher program.t is fair to say in my view that it would end medicare as we know it. it would create something else that would be called medicare. it wouldn't be the program we know. so this is pretty much a fundamental question. whether you make medicare into a voucher program or you keep it as an entitlement. and i believe the polls show that most people want to keep it the way it is. they don't want it to be a voucher program. >> they love it. >> and it's perfectly fair game. >> we know people on medicare. some of our older brothers. they love it. for the first time in their life they get something for all the work they did. dee dee, let me ask you about this. everybody says cut the budget. cut spending. and it's a good idea. we have a big deficit. how about just cutting the deficit through different taxation policies. but the minute you get to the reality of these cuts, and here we are. you like the ryan cuts, you like him cutting things? here's what he's cutting. medicare. explain it. defend it.

the math, there's not enough of these vouchers, obviously. if they all called you the day after this airs. >> it would be shocking. it would be wonderful. we will figure out a way to give them emergency and transitional housing. >> if they're hearing you right now, what would be their next step? >> the easiest thing is to show up. >> show up at the front door? >> show up at the front door. we have a variety of numbers. i'm afraid to give you my secretary's number but i will. questions in los angeles, 310-368-3284. >> i did wonder how many of the homeless vets are in fact seeing this. how many could even find a phone. >> there's been a lot made of this property about a block away from here around 400 acres designed for veterans, it was to provide housing for veterans and people have said, look, that property is not being used for that purpose. what of that? is that a legitimate beef? >> speaking for the agency and you know that's under litigation right now so i can't even comment on that. >> the v.a. will say that we are going to end homelessn

but instead because the patient gets to use the voucher to go shopping for an insurer it should be called patients. centered health care so here's what john boehner had to say about this vote to repeal obamacare. we're going to take a commonsense step by step approach that puts in place of the kind of policies that will make or are health insurance system more what i'll call patient centered and lower cost the only right so let's recap here the president democrats passed health reforms with specific provisions that they give low income americans and young people access to health insurance many of them for the first time ever be prevent surance companies from denying coverage rescission to americans with preexisting conditions set lifetime limits or discriminate against women see set up free market health insurance exchanges at the state level to provide caused coverage at a lower cost and d. force insurance companies to spend their premiums on actual health care rather than bonuses and lavish mansions and corporate jets oh and by the way he preserve the entirety of the for profit health i

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it would turn medicare into a voucher program.t is fair to say in my view that it would end medicare as we know it. it would create something else that would be called medicare. it wouldn't be the program we know. this is pretty much a fundamental question. whether you make medicare into a voucher program or you keep it as an entitlement. and i believe the polls show that most people want to keep it the way it is. they don't want it to be -- it's perfectly fair game. >> we know people on medicare. they love it. for the first time in their life they get something for all the work they did. dee dee, let me ask you about this. everybody says cut the budget. cut spending. and it's a good idea. we have a big deficit. how about just cutting the deficit through different taxation policies. once you get to the reality of these cuts. and here we are. you like the ryan cuts? here's what he's cutting. medicare. explain it. defend it. i think that's the problem romney's going to have between now and november. >> the broader question you just

he plans to turn medicare into a voucher program, so that voucher isn't worth enough to buy the healthnsurance that's on the market, you're out of luck. you're on your own. one independent nonpartisan study found that seniors would have to pay nearly $6400 more for medicare than they do today. >> former white house press secretary to bill clinton and contributing editor to "vanity fair," eugene robinson, by the way, eugene, if i got a pulitzer, i'd never stop saying it. let's get through the analysis here. it seems fair. it's tough, the advertising, over the top. but it's fair in this sense. romney has bought into the ryan plan. ryan gets lots of kudos for guts, but his plan does do what the president says it would do, right? >> yeah, it does. it would turn medicare into a voucher program. it is fair to say in my view, that it would end medicare as we know it. it would create something else that would be called medicare, but it wouldn't be the program we know. this is pretty much a fundamental question, i think. whether you make medicare into a voucher program or you keep it as an enti

doing the math, there's not enough of these vouchers, obviously.alled you the day after this airs. >> it would be shocking. it would be wonderful. we will figure out a way to give them emergency and transitional housing. >> if they're hearing you right now, what would be their next step? >> the easiest thing is to show up. >> show up at the front door? >> show up at the front door. we have a variety of numbers. i'm afraid to give you my secretary's number but i will. questions in los angeles, 310-368-3284. >> i did wonder how many of the homeless vets are in fact seeing this. how many could even find a phone. >> there's been a lot made of this property about a block away from here around 400 acres designed for veterans, it was to provide housing for veterans and people have said, look, that property is not being used for that purpose. what of that? is that a legitimate beef? >> speaking for the agency and you know that's under litigation right now so i can't even comment on that. >> the v.a. will say that we are going to end homelessness by 2015. >

program because we have vouchers that aside for victims of violence. sometimes there is just a simple disconnect in that line of communication. we appreciate from you, our community car residents and program participants, from everyone you have heard from or our partners to remind us that link has to remain in tact and our focus has to be in dealing with our residents and community members, particularly and specifically, our youth. we will continue to work -- i cannot say enough about kyle and we look forward to doing as much as we can as we move along. supervisor avalos: thank you. we appreciate your patience sitting through this hearing. we appreciate your work. >> you have heard quite a bit about our story. i don't have to tell much of it. supervisor avalos: thank you. that's our list of presentations and speakers. i would like to thank you all for being here and being part of this hearing. i was very glad to hear -- i think it is important to have a presentation of the crn here it in the public safety committee, so i think it is important that is s

>> listen if all funding were by vouchers then the students would pick the schools and the schools could pick the students. >> parents should pick the schools. >> that is about accountability. if something is failing what can you do about it? you have that option now and why not go to another school and if a charter school doesn't work send it to another school . good thing, david on this. if government run schools know that parents do have a choice. they move out the kids, that means they are failing. >> rick unger, specifically poor folks who don't have options, shouldn't they have as many. >> they one thing we want to be careful. we have comparison with private schools and public schools. >> parockial schools ever will i. they have to scape to come up with that and a lot of poor people spend their children to schools. >> a lot of people have $6000. you may have had it. >> noint parse -- 90 percent their parents were poor folks and that is a fact. parents who struggle can come up with $6000, but they need the option. >> in terms of government money, if you are a parent why shouldn't yo

we also have the wic program, which is a program that provides food vouchers for our families after they have their children, up to age 5 they are able to receive food vouchers to get milk and cereal for their children. >> it's for the city, not only our clinic, but the city. we have all our children in san francisco should have insurance now because if they are low income enough, they get medical. if they actually have a little more assets, a little more income, they can get happy family. we do have family who come outside of our neighborhood to come on our clinic. one thing i learn from our clients, no matter how old they are, no matter how little english they know, they know how to get to chinatown, meaning they know how to get to our clinic. 85 percent of our staff is bilingual because we are serving many monolingual chinese patients. they can be child care providers so our clients can go out and work. >> we found more and more women of child bearing age come down with cancer and they have kids and the kids were having a horrible time and parents were having a horrible time. how do p

mayor gray tells associates that he refused to allow his official campaign to absorb the illegal vouchers and instead, contacted his attorney. we have not been able to attorney what attorney robert bennett did with that information. if it was passed on to federal prosecutors it could save the mayor's job. so why can't the mayor say? >> lawyers say you can't say anything. but we are in a political environment. the public wants to understand what is going on. >> reporter: men -- men dell son refuses to join others. mural bowser, who is planning a run for mayor said again today that gray should step down now. >> the u.s. attorney said we had a tainted election. in my mind when there has been cheating in an election there is a whole question about legitimacy. >> if mayor gray knew about the shadow campaign, if he conspired in that january 2012 meeting with harris to hide the invoices, mayor gray could be looking at charges. >>> a bizarre carjacking turns deadly. two armed men wearing masks approach a car full of people just after midnight sunday. they order the people to get out of the car an

have confirmed to different associates they met on january 10th to discuss just what to do with vouchers that remained from the shadow campaign. harris wanted the invoices somehow absorbed by the official vincent gray campaign. the mayor told associates it was his first knowledge that a shadow campaign even existed. he refused to answer questions from reporters as to when he first knew. >> i talked about those things that i can. those that i can't, i have said. that. >> reporter: mayor gray tells associates that he refused to allow his official campaign to absorb the illegal vouchers and instead contacted his attorney. we have not been able to confirm what attorney robert bennett did with that information. if it was passed on to federal prosecutors it could save the mayor's job. d.c. council chairman phil mendelson. >> we're in a political environment, and the public wants to understand what's going on. they want an explanation. >> reporter: mendelson refuses to join three other council members who are calling on gray to resign because of the activities. another council member said gray

he said if mitt romney becomes president, medicare would become a voucher system, and that would costmore. >> if the voucher isn't worth what it takes to bay health insurance in the private marketplace, you're out of luck. you've got to make up the difference. >> reporter: the president also pushed his plan to end the bush- era tax cuts for the wealthy, tieing it back to that all- important senior issue. >> it's wrong to ask you to pay more for medicare, so that people who are doing well right now get even more. >> reporter: president obama has shifted his attacks on romney from his business record to his income taxes, and now medicare. romney, however, is continuing to focus on jobs and the economy. touring a small business in massachusetts, the former governor said the president was wrong when he said business owners don't build companies without government help. >> the president does, in fact, believe that people who build enterprises like this really aren't responsible for it. this is not the result of government. this is the result of people who take risks. >> reporter: romney ac

and that voucher comes with rights to a speedy review of the different drugs, perhaps the blockbuster drugs. the second drug gets to market faster should it be approved. >> we know you have a personal story that got you involved in this from the beginning. you lost your son jacob when he was 10. how would a law like this have changed your life? >> and hopefully what will happen in the future is drug manufacturers will decide to develop drugs for pediatric cancer and seek approval for them. when they do that, then other future kids who are diagnosed with cancer will have better and safer treatments. >> how can families right now get involved if they want more information or find out about this and how it may impact or affect their lives? >> and we have a website, www.kidsbeatcancer.org where we provide information and rely on families, in fact, often times to tell us about opportunities where we will work with drug companies and the fda to help shut the drugs through the, proval process and hopefully the vouchers. >> nancy goodman, founder and executive director of kids beat cancer. th

. ♪ >> eliot: when louisiana passed a new education voucher program a lot of conservative christianst: finally students could spend tax money on private education, including and especially christian schools. which brings us to the number of the day greater than one. that turns out to be the number of religious in the world. louisiana republicans had not considered that and hadn't released that couchers would go to a none christian school. but there was. the islamic school of greater new orleans turned up on the list of voucher-approved classrooms, and the louisiana g.o.p. exploded. that school has since withdrawn from the abraham. but republican state representative valerie hodges wants to make sure that the vouchers can't go to muslims. well, too bad. representative hodges, once you door between government and religion, you open it to all religious, not just christians and muslims but snake handlers scientologists rastafarianss. you don't want tax dollars going to muslim school? well, a lot of other people don't want state money going to christian fundamentalists. that's exactly why

it would turn medicare into a voucher program.raise the eligibility age to 67 and make seniors pay $6400 more for their coverage. and the worst part is romney wants to force these sacrifices on america's seniors just so he can pay for massive tax break for the rich. the president called him out for it today. >> my opponent doesn't just want to keep these tax cuts, he wants to cut those taxes by another $5 trillion including a 25% tax cut for every millionaire in the country. hold on. it gets better. to pay for this he plans to gut things like job training and financial aid for college. and potentially raise taxes on the middle class, on you. >> joining me now is former democratic congressman alan grayson now running again for florida's ninth district. congress man, thanks for joining me. as always, florida will be close this year. could the medicare issue make the difference? >> absolutely. we do have a few senior citizens in florida, you may have heard that. in fact, seniors are learning more and more about exactly how bad the ry

, an the voucher comes to review of another drug. >> reporter: quicker review of any drug the companyhooses, a drug for arthritis or heart disease can be worth millions to drug companies who have had little incentive to develop pediatric cancer drugs. for goodman it's a legacy for her son who will never grow up. >> like every other parent whose child has died of cancer, we don't want to think our kids have died entirely in vein. >> giving hope other families won't have to wait 20 years for another cancer drug for kids. >> dr. richard besser, abc news, new york. >> good work, mom. still ahead this saturday. the new bond girl that stole the show. how did they get her majesty to do that? the story behind the cameo. before copd... i took my son fishing every year. we had a great spot, not easy to find, but worth it. but with copd making it hard to breathe, i thought those days might be over. so my doctor prescribed symbicort. it helps significantly improve my lung function starting within five minutes. symbicort doesn't replace a rescue inhaler for sudden symptoms. with symbicort, today i