Page 30 - Benefit Analysis News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

A provision in the patriot act that was never designed for this, for anything this broad was secretly interpreted by a secret court after a secret request from the government to broaden it to cover everybody's phone calls, the records of every phone call is i think stunning. >> were you surprised -- >> now we can have a debate about the effectiveness and the usefulness of collecting this kind of data. but you can't have that debate if you don't nobody it. >> grownup people may cost benefit analysis every day of their lives. can we afford this dinner? this trip? can we afford this vacation? whe...

A provision in the patriot act that was never designed for this, for anything this broad, was secretly interpreted by a secret court after a secret request from the government to broaden it to cover everybody's phone calls and records of everybody's phone calls is i think stunning. >> were you surprised -- >> i mean, we can have a debate about the effectiveness and the usefulness of collecting this kind of data. >> grown-up people make cost/benefit analysis every day of their lives. can we afford this dinner, afford this trip, afforce this vacation? when you look at their defense of the last s...

Companies do because they obviously can keep some provisions or not. it depends on sort of their cost/benefit analysis here. >> yeah. some said they will deal with parts of it, they will keep allowing kids up to age 26 to stay on their parents' bills. one thing they do not have the ability to do is construct the individual mandate out of scratch. i will say quickly, the interesting thing if congress can't come to an agreement is what do states do, because states could set out an individual mandate as massachusetts did, they could do auto enrollment, they could as vermont is trying to do, blow ...

Point that was just made is a correct one about how, you know, this system is a failed system from the beginning because all they did was say, we're all kind of working together financially now, let's pool our money without the -- the fundamental underlying financial structure to support the weight of disparages between the cost and the benefit analysis that's required to be successful and the reality is coming home to roost right now. >> there's a fed meeting this week, we're going to get to that with steve rattner in a moment. let's go to los cabos mexico, chief white house correspondent and...

Says he doesn't want to provoke potential terrorists and antagonists? is that the reason? >> well, i shuure that's part o it, martin. you have to wonder whether the shifting story line about the raid itself factored into that cost/benefit analysis that savannah guthrie was describing to you earlier as has been -- as we fleshed out here on sunday, we were told, at first, that osama bin laden had offered resistance and was shot in a firefight, suggesting that he had taken up a weapon and was firing back. that was certainly the implication of the initial briefing by john brennan. yesterday we lea...