to blame all problems and medicare on medicare advantage -- we're talking $58 trillion in medicare debt, and that is not all due to the fact that medicare advantage are seeking healthier people out of the pool. medicare basically under charges in terms of what it costs to provide health care. let's go to jesse from maryland. caller: good morning. guy. wondering about this i think he is talking for the lobbyists. i agree with ms. flowers about the single-payer. host: what is your question? caller: what is wrong with single-payer? guest: what is wrong with single-payer? host: i think the line was dropped. a call from north carolina, hi. caller: government has already had a system of single-payer for over 70 years. it is called the v.a. system, and now congress is a voting to let people get out of the single-payer system. how come that is the situation, as opposed to going to the single-payer system? i have proposed in the past that if they want to have a single-payer system, give everybody free access to the v.a. for one year and let them see if that is the way they want their medicine? h

the medicare program will be bankrupt in cbo similar projects medicare insolvency in 2025. this means as soon as eight years from now the medicare program as we know it will likely be insolvent if we do not act now to protect and preserve the program. specifically, medicare hospital insurance trust fund will be unable to pay 100% of patient care costs which would reduce beneficiary access to health care services. such an outcome is completely, simply unacceptable for the millions of seniors who rely on this program. to clarify any misconceptionsio about our plan, let's debunk some of the political attacks on her efforts to save and strengthen medicare for the american people. number one, our budget protects the current medicare system as it is. for those at or near retirement will be unaffected and experienced no changes come while protecting the medicare system for younger generations as well. this resolution fully supports a patient centered medicare program that increases quality and choice for beneficiaries. medicare improvement envisioned in this budget would adopt a p

clearly there are many areas in need of reform within the medicare space in the medicare program. med pac has proposed innovative solutions and i look forward to hearing more from the report. meeting with medicare providers around my district and state, i've heard overwhelmingly that overbearing regulations are increasing, burdening providers and seem to be driving out and discouraging small providers in particular. i'm worried about the direction we're heading in this area. i'm hopeful my colleagues on the subcommittee, the full ways and means committee of this congress can work together with the new administration to not only spur innovation but reduce regulatory burdens across the medicare program. with that, i'd like to introduce today's witness, mark miller, the executive director of the payment advisory commission, med pac. welcome back. and before i recognize ranking member levin for an opening statement, i ask unanimous consent that all members' written statements be included within the record. with that, i recognize ranking member mr. levin. >> thank you very much, mr. ch

medicare is 80% of that. so there's just no question that what we need to be doing is focusing on reforms and every year when the trustees come out their with report, they warn us that you do need to make reforms. the sooner you make them the easier they for make and there's absolutely no reason to be putting the them off other than from a political perspective that it's hard. to talk for a moment about the political environment, i think one of the troubling things is that right now, really the willingness to confront hard choices between and including both parties, seems to be at the worst point it's ever been. i feel like i say that every year but then proceeds to get worse remember it's the worst point every year and then the next year is worse and that's a terrible moment where the partisanship is so deep, so high, and the way that both parties are competing is saying i'm not going to do a single hard thing. and if you look at the overall budgetary situation way he a president who ran on same i'm not goin

care under the medicare program through medicare advantage. it's four others as well. so that says to me that this is a systemic problem within the system that needs to be fixed because they're defrauding the american people and the medicare program. number one. number two, the ceo of united health care in 2014 was compensated $66 million. one person. one salary. one year. the republican health care bill that was passed by this house included, on page 67, a $15.5 million tax cut to united health care's ceo and their top executives. $15.5 million. in total. the other companies that are being questioned for overbilling, defrauding the medicare program, that bill provided their top executives with a $78 million tax cut. at the same time that that company and four others are under investigation for defrauding the medicare program. you can parse it any way you want. to me, it is a blatant violation of the trust that every member of this congress took an oath to uphold and to protect. i'll yield back. >> the gentleman's time has expired. mr. miller,

medicare. irthere's anything we know you have to make reforms to them remember it's perfectly legitimate to have very deep differences of opinion about what reforms, what changes to make to fix the programs, but the notion you don't have to make changes to them is just not rooted in any reality, any policy reality and really concern e jeopardizes the program ford the people who depend on them. so, i think that is the real problem. think in the healthcare debate we have been enmeshed in, in the path month, it's been more offer were going to repeal and replace obamacare and i don't have a position on whether we should or shouldn't but the first question is what are we trying to solve? i feel like many of the policymakers involved couldn't tell you what problem it is that we are trying to solve. i'll tell you what i believe in our organization would be we will be spending more time on is how are we going to control overall health care costs and that's different than saying you're going to pay less

medicare changed that dynamic. democrats are committed to keeping and strengthening medicare for seniors and disabled workers by reducing cost growth within the health system while protecting and providing essential benefits. the affordable care act includes numerous cost containment tools and has contributed to record low rates of health care spending growth since 2010. it has begun medicare's transformation toward rewarding quality and value and keeping it sustainable. we need to build upon that progress, not undermine it. i yield back. >> the gentleman's time has expired. the question is on agreeing to the amendment offered by mr. jeffries. all those in favor say eye. all those opposed, say no. >> the chair, the noes have it. i record a vote is requested pursuant to the unanimous consent agreement, we'll postpone the recorded vote until we finish the debate. are there other amendments? >> yes, madam chair. i have an amendment. this is amendment number seven, the clerk will designate the amendment. the staff will

medicare by 2025. on page 20 of the report, the trustees now say that medicare enrollment will hit 36%. medicare advantage is growing a lot faster than a lot of other folks would have ever projected. recognize the fact that since 2010 medicare advantage payments have been cut by about 12%. the medicare market is very stable. the number of plans that are participating has been growing. there has been very little interruption. the patient satisfaction is enormous. and the thing that characterizes it more than anything else is that this is basically a defined contribution system. i don't think the formula that governs the payment is particularly good, but nevertheless, it is. i think that looking at medicare advantage for the future may give us lessons for how we can introduce some intense competition into the medicare system based on something that is happening already. in fact, it may very well be that reality once again is o outrunning the politicians. and we are going to see an evolution of a system t

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>> an 80-year-old woman is probably going to be on medicare which i believe unless you were medicare you would not adopt maternity coverage. the bigger point is what we talk about. four plans in a small group market and then the affordable care act market and exchanges. >> this tweet from another viewer and health care. the more money the government throws at it the more it will cost. kathleen from riverside, ohio. you are part of the affordable care act, correct? >> i take care of my 89-year-old mother for the last three years full-time prior to that part-time. again, she worked 47 years and paid into the medicare system. she has been on traditional medicare with the united net. then about three or four years and medicaid in ohio which i believe and she needed to have a better toe nail. it doesn't cover her in ohio. my question is here again, 89, then i want to ask. why with our -- or the private to profit nursing homes, you know, the last place she was in was 10,000. 24 why? when the government is paying? why can't we put a cap and why can't they be demanded to be forced to hire mo

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report medicare actuary shows that medicare as it is now is going to go broke in 2027 i believe. people -- how can the democrats justified medicare for all or single-payer when the fact our the money isn't even going to be there for those were currently on it? , the reason that , howa middle-class person is he the democratic party is tax and spend. here is an example. approved, itwas was expanded to cover people that are able-bodied, people without children to eliminate their work requirement. those of us who are working present that. i would like your comments for those two things. first thatme say every able-bodied american should be of working age should be working. no question about it. everyone has got to contribute. we need people in the economy contributing and there should be no free riders unless you have some kind of sickness or disability or children. every able-bodied american needs to be out working and that's why earlier in this program i suggested we do a national jobs program where we get everybody back to work and we raise wages so that there are incentives to go

without medicare, i would be in much i'm in right an now. i don't -- okay, the other point had was they are talking about that democrats coming back to debate this. he democrats have been ask iin, saying, let us in, let us in, let us in for all this time. everything that comes through congress, as far as i make it they don't through the cbo. so, you know, yeah, it's fine go ahead and work together to fix whatever the ems there are with a.c.a. overhaul, eans total as long as everybody has a to have insurance, you know. matches t almost socialism, but the young have to pay. and by the way, as far as we're about the young have to pay, i started working in '71 13% of my pay going into the government where they probably should have put it n an interest bearing account and it never dyou know, my 90 90 grand, that's it, it has been taken out and used for other things and remember the n't p medicare. mrut i got a cola this year, $5, $5.i got medicare increase, host: let me ask you, your point working together. do you think they can do that in the am