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When we had a cost problem. so the next step for republicans, and democrats, if theyre willing to be reasonable and help is to address cost. obamacare has driven up costs. our first principle has to say the 155 million americans who are in employee-sponsored coverage, we need to get their costs down. >> how? >> thats the first -- >> idd like you to please articulate for me how. what is the plan to do that? >> the first thing you have to do is get the government mandates out. have the government ...

Industry employs millions of people. and the technology josh talks about is more expensive than the infrastructure in place. >> we have a huge cost problem. theres the infrastructure problem. >> especially when you have as you say these politically active and money spending oil companies supporting their interests in washington and politicly telling one to kick it down the road than barring it off the bat. >> there is this investment problem, right? i mean, the fossil fuel companies, that is the...

About is more expensive than the infrastructure in place. >> we have a huge cost problem. theres the infrastructure problem. >> especially when you have as you say these politically active and money spending oil companies supporting their interests in washington and politicly telling one to kick it down the road than barring it off the bat. >> there is this investment problem, right? i mean, the fossil fuel companies, that is their -- they need investment constantly to -- thats the fuel that the...

Infrastructure in place. >> we have a huge cost problem. theres the infrastructure problem. >> especially when you have as you say these politically active and money spending oil companies supporting their interests in washington and politicly telling one to kick it down the road than barring it off the bat. >> there is this investment problem, right? i mean, the fossil fuel companies, that is their -- they need investment constantly to -- thats the fuel that they run on. >> but youre not -- wha...

Conversation i had with phil. im very clear. heres my opinion. i think its good when more people get covered. and i think this number is 2 million or 6 million or 9 million right when you add in the 20 somethings. thats great. but there is a real cost problem which phil was referring to on the 2 million piece. which is whether or not you get enough people in the private marketplace. number one, what did you think of his answer and where we go from here? >> well, i think his answer was intentiona...

Congressional terms. 43% dont know john roberts is chief justice. what are we teaching the kids? >> thats the interesting question. the debate over what kids need to know like that kind of information versus what i they need to know how to do. think analytically, quantitatively. work in team thes. are we teach ing skills or are we teaching information? what should the right balance be? this is a debate thats going on at every level. even as we are trying to figure out how to make college accessi...

Be solvent for two more years. but miracle of miracles, 42 years later, we still have medicare. at 12 years right now, the medicare solvency projection is actually doing almost exactly average. it has sometimes been higher than that, particularly in the post-boom years, but it is often lower than it is right now. and a big reason for that, the reason medicare looks to be fairly sustainable right now is because we just passed that law. youve probably heard of it, called the affordable care act. h...

Look at that. in 1970, it was only supposed to be solvent for two more years. but miracle of miracles, 42 years later, we still have medicare. at 12 years right now, the medicare solvency projection is actually doing almost exactly average. it has sometimes been higher than that, particularly in the post-boom years, but it is often lower than it is right now. and a big reason for that, the reason medicare looks to be fairly sustainable right now is because we just passed that law. youve probably...

Average. it has sometimes been higher than that, particularly in the post-boom years, but it is often lower than it is right now. and a big reason for that, the reason medicare looks to be fairly sustainable right now is because we just passed that law. youve probably heard of it, called the affordable care act. health reform, obama care, which the republicans, let us remember, fought tooth and nail, and which spends most of its infamous 2,000 pages, throwing a whole bunch of different solutions...

$700 billion and $1 trillion a year by most standards, and 40% of that washes back through the federal budget. my position is that if were going after the old folks on medicare and cutting their benefits, if were going after the families who have a disabled child who couldnt take care of them if it wasnt for medicaid and were not dealing with the overall cost problem, then we are really disgracing ourselves. i had this conversation with senator simpson in the budget committee when he was our wit...