i wish we shared in the same insurance seniors did. but instead we have a patchwork system. we are dealing with privatized tax codes and student loans. do you feel there is a clear path forward for you and the people to the left and right and behind you to pay for this obligation? once the baby boomers have passed on there will be another generation that you have to help fund. we need to work on balancing short-term spending on investment and long-term spending on entitlements. we do need to work on it, but we weren t. every time we were going to tackle the debt, take a look. what happened? all the recommendations were ignored. jp, let me ask you. do you feel confident that the people in washington now are looking out for you and have the courage to do something about
i wish we shared in the same insurance seniors did. but instead we have a patchwork system. we are dealing with privatized tax codes and student loans. do you feel there is a clear path forward for you and the people to the left and right and behind you to pay for this obligation? once the baby boomers have passed on there will be another generation that you have to help fund. we need to work on balancing short-term spending on investment and long-term spending on entitlements. we do need to work on it, but we weren t. every time we were going to tackle the debt, take a look. what happened? all the recommendations were ignored. jp, let me ask you. do you feel confident that the people in washington now are looking out for you and have the courage to do something about
west, their application process could be much faster just because of the vagaries of our patchwork system. it s not uniform at all. so people in, say, new york, miami, los angeles, the wait times are longer. there s tremendous backlog, all sorts of hoops. yet if you happen to be in salt lake city or seattle, it s much easier. the system is incoherent and inconsistent just geographically if nothing else. i want to then just ask to follow up on that, so is our immigration process too hard in the wrong ways, igor? in other words, i think we all recognize that you ve got to have some barriers to entry, but is it too hard in the wrong way? way too hard in the wrong way. just the paperwork and the lawyers and the waiting and the uncertainty. i remember the stress it took and the worry it took for my parents was just remarkable. really aged them tremendously
i am a little less forgiving because they did have three years to put up that website. but three times is plenty of time to get the coding right. and what we re looking at is a real coding failure. that said, you are seeing a patchwork of health care reform develop in this country, in which some states are buying into the concept of bawl care, places like kentucky, new york, et cetera. and even now in ohio where john kasich announced that he would expand medicaid to poor and lower class ohioans, and then you see states not trying to participate in the law. what you re going to end up with is a real patchwork system of health care coverage in the united states. is this like nullification? zeke, is this like nullification where if a state wants to oppose a charter, they say you run it, but we hope it fails? we re not helping you? they re certainly taking that attitude. but i think in the end, and the end will be in the next year or
i am a little less forgiving because they did have three years to put up that website. but three times is plenty of time to get the coding right. and what we re looking at is a real coding failure. that said, you are seeing a patchwork of health care reform develop in this country, in which some states are buying into the concept of bawl care, places like kentucky, new york, et cetera. and even now in ohio where john kasich announced that he would expand medicaid to poor and lower class ohioans, and then you see states not trying to participate in the law. what you re going to end up with is a real patchwork system of health care coverage in the united states. is this like nullification? zeke, is this like nullification where if a state wants to oppose a charter, they say you run it, but we hope it fails? we re not helping you? they re certainly taking that attitude. but i think in the end, and the