Paul Tonko: “So you're saying that--to quote your dollar figure from earlier--if you're 54, 55 years old, save another $182,000 to…”

“So you're saying that--to quote your dollar figure from earlier--if you're 54, 55 years old, save another $182,000 to cover your health care costs with the end to Medicare because the system has to pay oil subsidies to the historically profit-rich oil industry. So they're saying, okay, garner up those dollars, save somehow the $182,000 additionally that you will require for your health care coverage because we have to give this mindless handout to the oil companies. Or guess what, $6,000 more out of your pocket per year for your health care coverage because we won't have the dollars if you don't do that to pay the oil companies or to give the millionaires and billionaires their tax cut. These are the priorities that need to be addressed thoughtfully at a negotiating table. And the ridiculousness of the empowerment of the most powerful at the expense of the masses of those who have received quality of care and dignity addressing their golden years, that has to be sacrificed just so that this stubbornness of negotiation can continue where you're going to have this Darwinistic outcome.”