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Ago. it grew by $134 billion. that's the way things have been going since 1960. up, up, and up. most dramatically now. in 1960 health care spending was a grand total of about 5% of our gdp. by 1970 up to about 7%. by 1980, 9% of all the dollars we spent went to health care. by 1990 it was up to 12%. by 2000 almost 14%. and by last year our health care spending constituted more than 17% of our entire economic output as americans. we now spend one of every $6 in our entire economy on health care. in ten years it's projected to be one in $5. not one in six. one of every $5 we spend in our whole e...

It does become popular. it gives us another bite to do that. >> i don't understand, john, why your side doesn't push for catastrophic health care for everybody, paid for by the government, leave everybody alone, no more mandated benefit, no one's forced to do individual mandates, just catastrophic, if you get really bad health problems facing you, cancer or something, you get it taken care of by -- and clinics for everybody else. your party doesn't have an alternative for the 30 million people who aren't covered, do you? do you have a plan for them? >> i think they do have -- >> what is it for...

Accomplished? >> we'll have moved a bill through the energy and commerce committee and ways and means committee that starts the unravelling of obamacare. we zero out the individual on the mandate and on the employer mandate and expand health savings accounts, give real freedom to families to choose their doctor. they don't have to go through washington and an elected bureaucrat and give states the ability and flexibility to run their program and control costs in medicaid. that's going to save hundreds of billions to the taxpayer. there are dramatic things in here, a great conservative win and ...

We've had a national conversation about entitlements about medicare, about the ryan budget. from all the polls i'm seeing including the one you talked, things are better for romney and ryan. >> jon: mitt romney has said we think, we in his team they can talk about medicare. they can argue the point and they think they can win the argument? >> it's a debated we have to have. when you look at the respected sides, they both agree on one thing. they cap medicare growth to g.d.p., where they differ how do we go about reducing the spending. so republicans are going to have to to citizens and say we ...

>> good morning. martha: what's the big deal with burwick. >> this is serious, what you have in dr. burwick is somebody widely respected because of his out of the box thinking, some would cay radical thinking in how to reform the cost side of the health industry. now, in the past, he's written books, he's a professor at harvard, also a pediatrician and he's written books where he's talked about ways to control cost. now, when a private sector person says control costs, they're talking about the bottom line for a hospital. when a government official talks about controlling costs they're ultimat...