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Around $900 billion over ten years. >> the full accounting of the bill is $2.6 trillion. that is a fair and accurate analysis of what the bill will cost according to cbo and the president sold it to the american people as a $900 billion bill. >> you have to take a lot of the projections with a grain of salt and two aspirin. the bottom line healthcare has a lot to do with the major deficit problems. we have to work together to curve excessive spending on healthcare. because that's crushing the american debt and deficit picture. >> bret: there are new projections out from the congressional budge...

Invest, we are broke. >>guest: the point here is the cost of doing nothing is to allow our economic competitors to get ahead of us. >>neil: i have seen what the costs of doing something is, congressman, 938 billion devoted to health care, $821 billion to the stimulus plan a couple of years ago. i look at homeownership and business assistance act, $6.6 billion. that has been working like a charm. hiring to restore the empolicemen, $17.6 billion. higher unemployment than when it started, extra funding for states, teachers, medicaid, $26 billion, worse than prior to the giving of the money. i cou...

The economy. >> heather: i want to ask about these numbers. "wall street journal" analyzed what marginal tax rates would yield if they were taxed and even if we were to tax 100% of the top 1% of america, that would yield only $938 billion in revenue. that doesn't even take a quarter of the 2012 budget of have you seen those numbers are ignoring them or does not believe them? >> absolutely ignoring them. it's a class warfare of getting out there and making the political rhetoric rich against the poor. you are exactly right. when we look how they are expanding who they are calling rich, all the ...

Malia and jamu green. great to have you both ladies on the show today. all right, wayne, would government run care for all americans save all americans money in the long run, do you think? >> well, i don't know how. in other words, they're adding $32 million people to the medicare rolls. that is going to cost us $938 billion. billion dollars. that's an enormous number. how are they going to make that saving money is beyond me. i don't know a government program yet that saved money. i don't know of one -- i would challenge everybody here on the panel or anybody who wants to write in, you name m...

Necessary. that's impossible to estimate, but will surely add to the cost which brought some "i told you so" from republicans. >> the healthcare bill is now expected to cost $115 billion more than the administration said it would. wiping out every saving they claim it would produce. >> reporter: the first cost was $938 billion for mandatory spending to reduce the deficit by $143 billion, though it included some unrelated savings in student loan programs. though that will not change, the discretionary spending makes healthcare more expensive but by how much is not certain. >> yesterday's report...