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Enough time with doctors. but you saw doctors are frustrated, too. >> it's tremendous. people don't realize, it's a crisis in this country that the providers are burning out at record rates. over 60% won't recommend the career to their kids. i went through this myself being ten years at stanford, experiencing burnout. if we change the culture of medicine and focus on the things that we went into medicine to do, change the system and the administrative burden, we can fix health care for insurers and providers as well. >> doctor, thank you so much for your time. you have a good one. do you have ...

$1,200 a year directly out of his pocket and expect he is going to continue to spend money. and if you don't believe me, ask the places where they spend money. ask wal-mart, ask the casual dining stories seeing less traffic. then you look at the savings rate. i find this very interesting. we increased ore savings rate in this country over the last several years, up to 7%. after january, those rates drop. precipitously, down to 2%. and now people are pulling money out of their 401ks at record rates. they're under the gun. higher food prices, higher fuel prices. they haven't seen any increase in...

Can get there, and if you go to keepi in in keepingamericangreat.org, there's a couple of ways to get us there. some debt is okay, but we are at over 100% of gdp when you count what we owe social security and medicare and adding debt at record rates. that's clearly unsustainable. >> any way congress can guarantee that money raised actually goes to fighting a deficit, or do we just have to trust them? >> there's no trust of congress anymore. washington is out of touch and out of control. we need to reclaim control over the budget. right now only 37% of the budget is controlled by the congress e...

Is college still worth it given the cost that students are now facing? >> well, it is absolutely worth it, melissa, for a number of reasons. you have to differentiate between the public colleges where states have the lowest level of subsidies to the public colleges ever. the santa monica college case is useful to look at, because california has been cutting. what it does for colleges, and that is a community college, and they have had to eliminate over 1,000 sections of classes since 2008. so obviously when you eliminate the classes and the students are going to community colleges at record ra...

30 percent think that the economy is doing all right. that is compared to 15 percent only two months ago. man, were we on the floor! now compare that to an approval rating up ten points from december, now nearly 50 percent. brad blakeman, former deputy assistant to president bush and crist han, former aide to senator chuck schumer, good morning to both of you and thank you for coming back. you guys are a great pair, that's why we want to bring you on today. brad, what about the numbers, what does it say to you politically? >> look, if it weren't for bad news this guy wouldn't have good news at...