medicare's in trouble. medicare's going broke. c.b.o. tells us in nine years it's exhausted its trust fund. we need to save medicare. this budget doesn't change anything for anybody on medicare now and within 10 years of retiring. and it saves the system for the next generation. contrary to what the president proposed yesterday, he wants to delegate more authority to 15 people on a commission, on a bureaucracy that was created in his new health care law to do price controlling and rationing of medicare for current seniors. he wants these 15 people without a consent of congress, just to do it directly, to impose more price controls and more limitations on providers, which will end up cutting services to current seniors. we repeal this agency. we don't think congress should be delegating this kind of power and authority to unelected people to make unilateral decisions on senior health care. so we preserve, protect and save medicare for current seniors, those 10 years away from retiring, and then i'll get into the details of how we save it

do not let medicare become medicare-less. we don't want these people who always oppose medicare, always oppose social security, oppose medicaid as we put it on the books to now come back and say, we are very courageous. we want to end those programs as we know it, but by the way where their courage has to be shown they show none. they will not tax the rich. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired. mr. markey: they only want to harm the poor. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired. the gentleman from south carolina. mr. scott: reserve. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman reserves. the gentlelady from new york. ms. slaughter: madam speaker, may i inquire of my colleague if he has any more speakers? i am prepared to close. mr. scott: we do not. ms. slaughter: all right. madam speaker, the republicans have shown in their budget proposal that they are intent on using the deficit as a pretense to end medicare. democrats proposed an amendment in the budget committee to protect medicare, tricar

finally, i want to say with respect to medicare, allison schwartz is got to talking about the medicare cuts. i want to turn briefly to medicaid, but simply put, turning medicaid into a block grant program is just code for cutting deeply into supports for seniors in nursing homes, seniors in an assisted living facilities, low-income kids, disabled individuals, and a most deplorable population. it is the blank check the governors with a license to cut those individuals -- cut the support for those individuals in our society. it is certainly not courageous to pick on some of the most vulnerable in our society. finally, i will end by saying this notion, the orwellian notion that ending the medicare guarantee for seniors and block- granting medicare that will help hurt individuals in nursing homes and other settings, to suggest that that is done to save medicare is a little reminiscent of that twisted saying that you have to this juror the bill in order to save it. this will do terrible damage to medicare and medicaid and everybody who has paid into the medicare system and relies on the sys

and we have single payer with medicare. medicare is much more efficient than the private system that's another part that's in the reason why the ryan plan explodes you know we've tried this already we've got in the ninety's we had medicare plus choice and we can still he's holding private corporations medicare advantage right now still in both of them turned out to be much more expensive than medicare so it really is the private health care system that is the is the program did the i know there was a lot of sturm and drang when the president basically said ok the the holes that they drilled into medicare where they could allow private health insurance companies to come in and fill these holes are costing us a fortune. stupid we're going to get rid of them and of course the republicans all yell he's destroying medicare and actually what he was does destroying was medicare advantage to the core programs. how much more is there to go how much and how much more program is left in medicare that needs to be stripped well v. . the

we don't want to ration medicare, we don't want to see medicare go bankrupt, we want to save medicare. number three, repair the social safety net. get it ready for the 21st century. we don't want a welfare system that encourages people to stay on welfare, we want them to get back on their feet and into flourishing, self-sufficient lives. so let's reform welfare for people who need it and let's end it for corporate welfare for people who don't need it. number four, let's do the work of lifting this crushing burden of debt from our children. this is what we achieve. we have a choice of two futures. but we have to make the right choice. we must not leave this nation -- lead this nation into decline. we must not be the first generation in this country to leave the next generation worse off. decline is antithetical to the american idea. america is a nation conceived in liberty, dedicated to equality and defined by limitless opportunity. equal opportunity, upward mobility, prosperity, this is what america is all about. in all chapters of human history, there has never been anything quite li

reforming medicare, beginning in 2022, roughly 10 years from now, medicare would pay a portion of the premium for private health insurance plans, chosen by seniors themselves. the operative word is private health insurance plan. reforming medicaid, making a bloc grant to the states. projected savings, chairman ryan claims that over 10 years his plan will cut nearly $800 billion. president obama, eight date laser, april 13th, delivered his counter-plan for long-term debt reduction. that plan is titled shared prosperity and shared fiscal responsibility. >> i will not tell families with children with disabilities they have to fends for themselves. >> here are the obama reforms on medicare and medicaid. reforming medicare beginning in 2018, roughly seven years from now, there will be a hard cap on coverage costs. reforming medicaid, a single rate for all states. projected savings, president obama claims that over 12 years his program will nearly $500 billion. >> let's look at these real clear metrics. taxes obama plan, raises tax $1trillion. by 2023 ryan's plan cuts taxes but 2.3 trillion

outside of medicare. however it is unclear how successful the experiments will be for three reasons. first, there is little reliable evidence about exactly how to move medicare and the directions experts support. the problems faced by previous medicare demonstration projects show the difficulty of making ideas work in the real world. a second obstacle is to try to reduce spending in ways that do not in hinge on health we need to measure the quality or value of the caribbean delivered. such measures of course exist and are being enveloped but much more needs to be done before most providers and patients would have great confidence in those measures. a third issue is the legislation included important limits on the experimentation that will occur. the considerations in mind, cbo has projected limited savings from the experiments during the next decade. even with all the provisions in effect and the 30% reduction in the position payments of medicare scheduled to occur under the current law and bill law proce

medicare part a is for hospital coverage. -- medicare has several parts, but the main parts are medicare part a and medicare part b. what the commissioners are talking about doing is combining those deductibles, so that he would have won a combined deductible of about $550. so you would say that is a lot less, that will benefit seniors. but what is it really important to remember is they would try to reject what seniors to have some skin in the game. -- they want seniors to have some skin in the game. they want them to play more of front -- pay more up front. most seniors have supplementary coverage. what it does is help to cover some of the additional costs and co-payments, the deductibles, what ever cost sharing there is in the plan. from the first dollar that a person pays, you go to the doctor for the first time in a given year, and you have the bill. then you call on your supplemental insurance to start paying right from the first dollar. the concern is that this tends to lead to greater use of health-care services, and perhaps someone argue, and necessary services. the seniors just

will medicare prosper or perish? will medicare survive or die? that's the issue before the house today. the fact is the republican plan puts an insurance company between our seniors and their doctors and that is wrong. the fact is that the republican plan does not reduce health care costs. hospitals will not charge less. doctors will not charge less. the government will pay less and seniors will pay more. $6,000 per senior per year. the fact is that this is all being done not to reduce the deficit but to reduce taxes of the wealthiest people in america. the fact is we should not have this, and the fact is this, we can have an american that doesn't have -- but have medicare. let's senseably reduce spending as we did yesterday on -- let's sinciblely reduce spending as we did yesterday. we will fight this effort and we will prevail. i yield back. the chair: the gentleman yields back. the chair recognizes the gentleman from new jersey. mr. garrett: and at this time i'd like to yield one minute to the gentleman from kansas. the chair: the gentleman fr

item, reform medicare. for those today under the age of 55, that's today, medicare would be transformed to a system of "premium support" beginning roughly 10 years from now, in 2022, medicare would pay a portion of the premium for private health insurance plan chosen by the seniors themselves. item, reform medicaid. make it a bloc grant to the states directly. item, overhaul the tax code. business and individual tax breaks would be eliminated with top corporate and personal income tax rates, get this, capped at 25%. over a 10-year period, chairman ryan's proposal cuts 6.2 trillion -- that's t as in thomas, trillion dollars from president obama's budget. on twitter house minority leader nancy pelosi lampooned the ryan path to prosperity as "a path to poverty for america's seniors and children and a road for big oil." question, what impact will ryan's budget proposal have on the national debate over today's federal deficit? >> they're going to demonize ryan and demagogue his plan, and i don't think his plan w

we were going to have problems with medicare because medicare spending was growing way more than than was sustainable, and on top of that we have the baby boomers who are starting to retire, and they'll double population on medicare. >> woodruff: but on balance, it would save the taxpayers money? it would specify what the amount would be. it's been compared to the notion of having defined benefits versus defined contributions in terms of pensions. an amount would be set-- could decide whether the amount that congressman ryan said which was the growth of the economy or some other amount is a right amount, but that would be the amount that would count for the spending by government. people would have a variety of plans, and that limits the government's obligations. >> woodruff: and thus would lead to lower government spending, chris jennings, is that right, on medicare? overall? >> sure it would cap what medicare pays for health care for seniors. and the issue really is capping doesn't contain costs. it just shifts costs. and the real challenge of our health care delivery system is not

a newly egible medicare patient who canno find a medicare physician. cannot find a medicare physician. the program is broken and is unsustainable. the status quo is unacceptable. what we do is honestly and factually reform the program. medicare program. it is a guaranteed issue to seniors of this country through our program. so by completely repealing and defunding bm become cobama bm c simultaneously move from an era of debt, doubt and depair into a stable and secure future. mr. chairman, i'm honored to support this path to prosperity. >> thank you. now i'll yield two minutes to the gentleman from wisconsin. >> thank you, mr. chairman. i support this budget resution today and thank the chairman and members of the committee and the committee staff for all their hard work. one simple reason i'm advocating for this budget is we've got to stop spending money we don't have. it's a simple concept, if you only have $6, you can't spend 10. but that's what we do every day. every day where 40 cents of each dollar spent by our government is borrowed. it has to s

medicare went up 6%. medicare is efficient. medicare is efficient. it is a nationwide policy. you can get it anywhere in this nation. there is no administrative cost that even comes close to what the insurance companies' administrative costs are. perhaps 30% of the premium. profit, sales expenses, all of those things added up and that includes the chaos at the delivery, the medical delivery. we need to change that. you want to deal with something more? take a look at this. this is medicaid. in medicaid the republican budget intends to cut medicaid by 3/4 of $1 trillion in the next decade. who gets medicaid? senior citizens, the disabled. this is immediate. can i have another 30 seconds? >> i yield the gentleman another minute. the chair: the gentleman is recognized for another minute. mr. garamendi: who gets medicaid? the aged, the blind, and the disabled gets medicaid. the republican budget cuts medicaid three quarters of a trillion dollars. seniors will be, not 10 years from now, but immediately as the budget reductions take place, will be thrown out of nursing homes. i just

the price controls in medicare today are causing doctors to stop seeing patients, and medicare is the biggest contributor to skyrocketing health care costs. price controls, which is the current plan in medicare, doesn't work. what we think works to bring down price cost is competition, and we want to give seniors the power, the tools through competition to bring down costs. >> but you're talking about giving them the power and the tools. a couple points on that. first of all, didn't liberals win this argument when republicans tried to overhaul social security through private accounts? look at the vagueries of the market and what would have happened to seniors then. >> this is very different comparison. i think that's kind of a non sequ tomorrow. >> it's talking about the marketplace and in this case, the health care industry is somehow leaving seniors in the hands of the private health care market with a defined benefit. you're changing medicare as we know it. why don't you agree with government auditors who say the prices are going to go up for seniors? >> listen to what auditors are

they get a chair of comprehensive plans to pick from and medicare subsidizes the plan just like medicare advantage would work ors the plan i have as a congressman. that's what i'm talking about. there is a dins of opinion here and this is where he did show us some acknowledgement of the fact ask the acknowledgement is health care costs are going too fast and we have to deal with this. there are two ways of dealing with this, charlie. the prd said he wants this unelect the bureaucracy with no oversight or control from congress to just indiscriminately cut medicare reimbursements to medicaid, meaning price controls from governments. that doesn't work. we've fought inflation in the past and costs controls don't fight inflation successfully. they just make resources more scarce. they deny people care. we believe competition is the better way to go. we believe competition and choice is the best way to go and the reason we say this is the service clear. the prescription drug benefit and the design of which we're trying to replicate, came in 40% below projections. seniors get to choose among a

a decade before medicare. in 195 1958 she created aarp for seniors across the country who needed health insurance for themselves. through 1010, she also envisioned a better life for seniors that included health and economic security and opportunities to remain active and productive members of society. when we look at what dr. andrus did, it is the remarkable she came up with a creative marketplace solution, to what was then considered to be an unsolvable problem. providing access to health care for seniors. she changed the market by bringing seniors together who shared those needs. we have followed dr. andrus' lead ever since. lee, our other volunteer leaders and our dedicated staff are "the guardian's" of that legacy today. we are leading efforts to improve life for all generations by working to provide access to quality, affordable health care, including lower prescription drug costs, improve and protect financial security including social security, and fighting age discrimination. and we advocate for consum

as with all medicare supplement plans, you can keep your own doctor and hospital that accepts # medicare, call this toll-free number now. >>> all right, well you might remember back in march, rob and i made a little teeny bet on the academy awards. if i picked the most winners for the academy awards, rob would be my nanny for the day. >> and if i won the bet, peggy was going to chauffeur me around like a big movie star for the day. in the end, it came down to best picture. >> best movie, you know what that means? two diapers changing them both at the same time, it's all you. >> yes, i'll be baby-sitting the kids. i know how to change diapers and all sorts of fun stuff. congratulations, i mean that from the bottom of my heart. >> alright thank you. don't worry we'll catch all of this on tape. you'll see him in action taking care of twins. it's not easy. >> i can't wait. >> can i wear this blouse a little bit longer? all right, well a bet is a bet so recently rob left his comfort zone of new york city, came out to the 'burbs and came out in a minivan. >> yes, we were burb'ing it up. >> how

and i want to go towards the medicare situation. they want to end medicare. i want to hear from some of our other colleagues. road to ruin, road to riches, a complete situation, a dichotomy of special needs coming at the expense of middle-class america. it's a raid on our middle class, paving the road for the fortunate and ruin for america's middle class, without a strong middle class and without enhancing the middle class, we have a weakened middle class. thank you for bringing us together on a very important discussion here in the house of representatives as we continue to fight for the middle class that has been impacted severely and would take even more hits if this budget were allowed to pass through. mr. yarmuth: i thank the yeah. and it's a road we have been down before. it's a road beff been down before. back under the reagan administration, the theory of trickle-down economics was developed. the idea was, people at the top make as much as they can and that will trickle down and help everybody else. and the man who was largely responsible for that pol

. >> and cuts $500 billion for medicare. >> hands off our medicare. >> reporter: this time it's the democrats' turn to blast republicans over medicare cuts. a web ad running against more than two dozen republicans warns votes to, quote, end medicare, will force seniors to find new lines of work. >> you missed a spot. >> reporter: one older gentleman -- >> did someone call the fire department? >> reporter: -- is being shown forced into a more creative profession. so-called mediscare strategies keep coming back because they work. older residents vote and don't want anyone touching medicare. neither do voters overall. 78% from the latest abc news/"washington post" poll say they oppose cutting the program. any hope for a solution may have to start in the senate where a group of six senators is working to produce something they hope both parties can agree on. >> medicare cannot continue the way it is if we're going to survive. >> this is a defining moment and we've got to decide as a nation, are we going to do some things that all of us would prefer not to have to do, or do we wait for the roof to

we start with saving medicare. the open ended blank check nature of medicare subsidy mechanisms is threatening the solvency of this critical program and it is creating inexcusable levels of waste in the system. everyone who is on medicare or knows someone on medicare has stories about waste in the system. unnecessary tests, redundant treatments, the cost of time and money of mistaken billons comer misplaced records, and just outright fraud. this kind of waste -- let me be clear -- it is inevitable in a top down, government-run system. and it translates into runaway health inflation. this budget repair is medicare costs broken structure and saves the program for current and future beneficiaries. the principle that government should reorient its policies without forcing people to reorganize their lives, the budget reform does not affect those nearing retirement in any way. instead, and people 54 years old and younger become eligible for medicare, they will be allowed to choose from a list of medicare-approved coverag

right now we are having conversations about medicare that medicare is the problem. medicare is a recipient of the expenses of many industries. >> understand that. so, the question is -- >> affordability is the answer. >> and the affordability care act doesn't satisfy you. it's going to maintain affordability and therefore you need to keep the option open to sell and be involved in these products in the future, is that really it? on of remic the gentleman's time is expired. the gentleman from new jersey mr. pascrell was recognized for five minutes. >> mr. rand, you are a tax-exempt corporation from a private association commodus sir. >> i have a couple of questions for you mr. chairman. i'd like to know whether or not we think or you think that there are specific laws that have been broken here with regard to this tax xm organization. is that one of the reasons or the reason why we are having this hearing? >> that's an and proper parliamentary inquiry. >> oh it is? >> my question is what laws do you think have been broken since we look at policy and we are not lookin

now, what do they do with medicare? they essentially end medicare as they know it. they don't reform it. they deform it. they take away the medicare guarantee for seniors. they say you got to go into the private insurance market. and by the way, we'll give you a voucher or whatever you want to call it that will reduce -- will reduce value over time. and all the risk, all the risk of increased costs in the health care system will be bourne by the medicare beneficiary, the seniors. even as they get rid of some of the -- the one mechanisms that they kept, that they did -- that they got rid of, excuse me, in the health care reform bill was the creation of a commission to help recommend and reduce costs. they get rid of that which will lead to increase costs in medicare. and then they turn around and put all the risk and burden on the senior citizens under medicare. it is a radical change. and it is extremely bad for seniors. finally, i just want to say with respect to medicare, excuse me, allison schwartz is going to talk in more detail about the medicare cuts and i wan

caller: all about medicare. medicare will spend forever and ever. but you republicans always are trying to privatize it. host: i'm going to stop you. we have the republican line. guest: let's talk about telling the truth. caller: a democrat from north carolina, peggy. caller: i agree with what the -- two callers before me. host: what is the point of your criticism? caller: you said the ryan plan will give us the same options as a federal worker. well, sir, i am a federal worker. i will tell you this. at the age of 65, i had to drop my medicare -- excuse me, by federal insurance and go on to medicare. the only thing we get to do is to pick a supplement. guest: did you like your federal plan? when you have a choice? caller: i loved my federal plan. and i like medicare. up --: you are bringing o caller: the other thing -- guest: people want to have some choice in their plan. they say, this is the amount you're going to be able to cover. if you want to add to that, you have to pay out-of-pocket. what she is describing is wench went medicare, she was off

as with all medicare supplement plans, you can keep your own doctor and hospital that accepts medicare, get help paying for what medicare doesn't... and save up to thousands of dollars. call this toll-free number now. >>> welcome back to msnbc. i'm contessa brewer. we have live pictures from andover, maryland, where president obama is expected shortly to talk about the jobs report and to focus on clean vehicles that companies are using to save money and how in turn that helps the environment. this is a u.p.s. facility. the president is going to talk about the new partnership with corporate giants like u.p.s., at&t, pepsico to reduce oil use in the fleets. >>> hot on the web today and the bronx zoo cobra is captured and back in captivity. zoo keepers found the serpent coiled near the reptile house only a couple hundred feet from its cage. it's alive, well, but still nameless? after this kind of fame, you'd think the snake should have a name and somebody should probably tell the human behind the cobra's twitter account, who is still posting. i highly doubt that zoo keepers would let a sn

as with all medicare supplement plans, you can keep your own doctor and hospital that accepts medicare, get help paying for what medicare doesn't... and save up to thousands of dollars. call this toll-free number now. >>> all right. daily flashback. on this day in 1945, u.s. troops landed on the japanese island of okinawa. it would become one of the longest and bloodiest battles and to this day, the u.s. has more than 20,000 troops stationed on okinawa, most of which have been involved in humanitarian relief. >>> it's been a tough few years for america, but the new survey this week shows americans are still optimistic at least when it comes to their own ability to attain the american dream. >> 63% are confident they can reach their personal goals. 75% say in some ways, they're already there, but when it comes to wall street and washington, a different number. 83% have less trust in general and big business, the government did not fair much better. tom brokaw joins us now to talk about some of these results. in some ways, it's heartening after everything this country has been through th

saves medicare. under this bill, medicare and medicaid, spending goes up every single year. it goes up at a more sustainable rate so it's sustainable. >> it sounds like you're saying there's no possibility of a bipartisan -- >> i think the president and the democrats have leaned forward farther on health care and they've chosen. they've done medicare law, medicaid law, health care law, which we really disagree with. and so i don't know that the specter of a compromise. something tells me when we repeal obamacare, he's probably not going to sign that bill into law. so social security's an area where i do -- i'm cautiously optimistic about progress. i do believe this is a program we can fix. we didn't quite get there. i'd like to think that was an area we can get some success on. and that's why what we put in here was to set the process for a bipartisan solution. >> what are the assumptions you're basing your projections? >> this is cbo numbers. we're using cbo's long-term score. cbo -- we don't give cbo assumptions. they use their baseline of their score. [captions copyright

i am lucky that he takes medicare. medicare pays $49 for the visit. most doctors do not take medicare in our area because it pays so little. my father died at 83. we could not get insurance for my mother. since he never paid social security, she had to pay full price for medicare, and then get a supplemental, and then she still went broke at 89 with the large drug costs. the ceo of united healthcare common two years ago, got $1.2 billion -- a package. there was a discrepancy in the paperwork. he got $800 million for a retirement package. how do you justify that and my rates keep on going up? tell me how you can justify that. if i spent $200 for my supplemental insurance, medicare should be insolvent. guest: thank you for the question. it is very important to let seniors know -- first of all, the current health care bill that the president passed in the last congress. that bill is why your decisions -- and i have heard from my constituents, doctors do not want to take medicare. there is nothing in health care bill that injures our doctors will be paid

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>> i wouldn't say it ends medicares we know it. private insurers are already in medicare. medicare is nothing different than what i'm talking about which is about 20% of medicare beneficiaries get comprehensive private plans. >> woodruff: that's one part of it. >> the parent-d benefit is private plans. so what we're doing is we're taking a look at the lessons that have worked. the prescription drug benefit came in 40% below cost projections. we're copying that kind of a model so specifically what we're saying is if you're 55 and above no changes whatsoever in medicare. but if you're like me, if you're 54 and below medicare is going insolvent by the end of the decade. it's leading our country towards bankruptcy so future seniors 54 and below will get a list of medicare-approved plans kind of like how it works today but for all of medicare and it's a system that works identical to the one members of congress and federal employees have. they choose among the medicare plans for their business. that choice in competition actually helps bring down cost and expand availability. a

it's the teamstone for medicare. in the republican budget is a proposal that would terminate medicare for all americans who are less than 55 years of age today. if you are 65, maybe it would continue on, but if you look at the totality of their proposal, it is the termination of medicare, and this is what we have. medicare. 1965 to 2011, created by l.b.j., destroyed by the g.o.p.. unbelievable. and along with it, a significant reduction in medicaid, which in california we call medical. your expertise, mr. blumenauer, on the health care issue and the experience in oregon on how we can reduce the cost of medical care needs to be heard by every member in this house. if you would continue on and share your thoughts this issue of medical services and how we can deal with reducing the costs, saving medicare and at the same time addressing the deficit. mr. blumenauer: well, your point is well taken in terms of what they would do terminating medicare as we know it for everybody under 55 years of age. we're talking about over

an alternative way to structure medicare payments would be for medicare to pay only the cost ot existing payments -- existing ways, excuse me, of dealing with a specific health problem unlesf a new treatment or procedure is shown to be better for beneficiaries' health. under such an approach, patients would be able to use their own money to pay for the morebe a expensive care, but the federal government would not pay more itself unless the more expensive care was shown to be moremore valuable than the less expensiv care. such a system is much, much easier to describe than to implement. it would be an immense challenge to formally classify procedures into sets that address the samer health problems and to evaluateb whether some treatments and procedures are better for somebe or all patients. accordingly, cbo has notcifi estimated specificc options of this sort, however, it is an approach that analysts outside the cbo are analyzing. a fifth approach is to cut backe a tax expenditure rather than ae direct outlay. tax expenditures are provisions of the tax code, deductions,isi credits or exc

the medicare system. i will be very quick. i am 53. i paid about $6,000 a year out of my own pocket for pretty good health insurance. i never use my health insurance, but maybe a couple of hundred dollars a year. my understanding is that 80% of insured americans are healthy and use their health insurance very little. billions of dollars could be raised and go into the medicare system, which i understand has a low administrative, 1%-3%, operating costs as compared to private insurers that operate at 17%. that could go into the medicare system, and maybe even the federal government could make money off of the healthy people like myself, who would jump at the chance. host: all right. we got the point, mike. congressman? guest: you made several points. let me start with the paul ryan budget, which would further cut taxes for the well-off in america. i represent a wealthy district that i believe people that are successful, good for them, and we do not want to do anything that punishes them. i broke with my par

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we don't want to ration medicare, we don't want to see medicare go bankrupt, we want to save medicare. number three, repair the social safety net. get it ready for the 21st century. we don't want a welfare system that encourages people to stay on welfare, we want them to get back on their feet and into flourishing, self-sufficient lives. so let's reform welfare for people who need it and let's end it for corporate welfare for people who don't need it. number four, let's do the work of lifting this crushing burden of debt from our children. this is what we achieve. we have a choice of two futures. but we have to make the right choice. we must not leave this nation -- lead this nation into decline. we must not be the first generation in this country to leave the next generation worse off. decline is antithetical to the american idea. america is a nation conceived in liberty, dedicated to equality and defined by limitless opportunity. equal opportunity, upward mobility, prosperity, this is what america is all about. in all chapters of human history, there has never been anything quite li

the problem is medicare goes bankrupt in nine years. unless we do something to save it, it won't be there for future generations like my generation. the ideas we're talking about for reforming medicare is a

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