alice rivlin who says medicare, itself, is unsustainable? obviously, there is a long-term medicare financing problem. a few weeks ago, the medicare trustee put out a report and said the trust fund will be, you know, fully funded through 2024. it will be nice to have it be longer. we have a little bit of time. we have a challenge, but it s not that we fall off of a cliff. i think one of the things that we try to do as we look at healthcare is set up a system where it can change over time. affordable care act isn t carved in stone there are aspects of it. as we learn more, we will be evolving. the president would cap spending every year eventually. how does it work? how can you arbitrarily pick a growth rate and see that is it without affecting care in some way? all of the plans that have scorable savings do something that, you know, caps expenses. in the case of thepet s plan,