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The cpi, the consumer price index is fixed by saying what is a bread basket, what is a basket that people buy? how much do you spend on education, health care, et cetera? okay. how much does health care increase in costs, et cetera in the fact what the cpi says if stake gets too expensive, you switch to hamburger. thats, in other words, figuring in a reduction in your standard of living into the calculation, which i think is just wrong. now, instead, what we should lock at is a different measure...

Act start to roll out when we start replacing what we call fee for service where providers are paid for every service rather than an overall treatment plan, i think we can actually extend the life of medicare even longer. so, theres good news on the medicare front and social security is something that weve been living with the prospects of the baby boomers causing this problem in social security for a long time. one of the proposals which i dont support is raising -- is the so-called changed cpi...

People want. the president received accolaids from the right to be willing to revisit the reform and measures in the increase of cost of living and cpi . there was concern about how that would affect tax brackets. it would translate in a middle class increase over the decade. is that a fair concern. >> the so-called changed cpi, reformulation of the way that cost of the living expenses are tied to inflation and a technical adjustment that was sought in a specific request by republicans. >> i und...