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Entrepreneurial economy moving again. we have to get banks to make loans. >> paul: how do you do that? >> provide job environment. rereduce the tax burdens, not increasing the government burdens, speed up regulatory and permitting process. reduce the burdens on lawsuit abuse and reform. get students and workers of the future to be focused on skills and education that are relevant and rigorous. there is a lot of work to be done. those are some of them. >> paul: repeal the health care bill that passed last year. >> absolutely. number of things we can do to get into the specifics. repeal and fix ...

And painful death as well. i mean, it's horrible. and this timeline, david camp from michigan did this timeline, i mean, that's kind of when i kind of got on to this. i mean, obviously, if i saw this two months ago, i would have bolted into action sooner. but this actually tells step by step, we'll have it on the web site how medicare, doing services, diagnostic images and everything. >> all right. joining us from the orlando area, real quickly is the sign still up? >> yeah. >> ok, good enough. >> sure is. >> thank you, doctor. we're see you're dressed for work. have a great day. >> thank you ...

We have a very difficult time supporting those provisions, and it's not a matter of just saying we all agree on the goal of reducing waste, fraud and abuse. we all do, of course. it's how do you it. now, let me give you a couple of examples. david camp i think pointed out the answer to the dispute that you and lamar alexander had a moment ago, and he was exactly right. let me quote from the congressional budget office letter, this is from doug elmendorf to evan bayh, november 30th, 2009, quote, cbo and joint tax committee estimate that the average premium per person covered, including dependen...

Insurance companies come forward should -- get money for, should go to the patient. so i think we can do all of these things, but if we're going to eliminate the waste, fraud and abuse in medicare, it does mean we're going to cut some of that out, and when i hear my friend dave camp say you cannot cut money out of medicare, we don't want to cut the good stuff that you point out or prevent -- or add prevention, but if one third, if what senator coburn says, that one third of medicare doesn't go to patient care, you can't just get up there and say we don't want to cut anything out of medicare. w...

For a variety of reasons, but one of which both you and dave camp agreed on, it is a richer benefit. how did it get that way? because the federal government would mandate it under your legislation in the insurance expansion. and as a result, there would be a higher cost. how does this happen? there is an actuarial requirement of 60 percent actuarial value in exchange for the least costly plan, but the average in the country today of a high deductible plan is 48 percent. the range today is 40-80 percent. and the average is between 55 and 60. so what the government is doing here is saying we're ...