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Congressional terms. 43% don't know john roberts is chief justice. what are we teaching the kids? >> that's 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 that's going on at every level. even as we are trying to figure out how to make college accessible and affordable to a larger population of students. >> we have seen the question asked by peop...

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. you've 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 ...

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. you've probably heard of it, called the affordable care act. health reform, obama care, which the republicans, let...

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. you've 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 at the actual underlying problem, that is driving the medicare cost problem, which is the cost of ...

$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 we're going after the old folks on medicare and cutting their benefits, if we're going after the families who have a disabled child who couldn't take care of them if it wasn't for medicaid and we're 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 witness there. he agrees with it. but, and there's always a caveat in these things, that side of t...