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Necessary. that's impossible to estimate, but will surely add to the cost which brought some "i told you so" from republicans. >> the healthcare bill is now expected to cost $115 billion more than the administration said it would. wiping out every saving they claim it would produce. >> reporter: the first cost was $938 billion for mandatory spending to reduce the deficit by $143 billion, though it included some unrelated savings in student loan programs. though that will not change, the discretionary spending makes healthcare more expensive but by how much is not certain. >> yesterday's report...

>> time nor now for our hits and misses of the weekment dan, first you. >> on tuesday president obama signed the legislation allowing the department of education to take over the student loan programs and on tuesday when they went into the department's website they got an error message because the website was down suggesting that the government is too big to work. now, you've got to worry, if the chinese can hack into the pentagon's most secret weapons programs, how hard is it going to be for an mit freshman to hack into the department of education loan program. >> paul: they may have to do th...

>> time nor now for our hits and misses of the weekment dan, first you. >> on tuesday president obama signed the legislation allowing the department of education to take over the student loan programs and on tuesday when they went into the department's website they got an error message because the website was down suggesting that the government is too big to work. now, you've got to worry, if the chinese can hack into the pentagon's most secret weapons programs, how hard is it going to be for an mit freshman to hack into the department of education loan program. >> paul: they may have to do th...

To your question was an answer about the process and what took place on capitol hill, didn't get to the merits of what the issue was with the student loan programs. the bottom line is that i think that the way the system was before, and i think of americans would agree, is that the banks gave these loans out on the backs of american students, and this now by removing the middle man will streamline the process and get the loans to where they need to get. so i don't think anyone is shedding any tears over the fact that the banking industry is going to lose out on some students loans here. i don'...