Are possible. The president s own council of economic advisors some years ago estimated that we could do savings of 700 billion a year without affecting the quality of care in any way for the worse. The National Institutes of medicine have made several regular projections on this. The most recent one is at 75 750 billion a year. Well, the institutes of medicine are pretty serious folks and theyre entitled to respect when they say that we can have those kind of savings. Rand corporation a lot of people know a lot about. Its a very, very expert organization. They actually have done two things. Theyve looked at what we can snaif Health Care Save in health care and then theyve looked at what we can save in Health Care Plus an additional bit for dealing with waste and fraud. And they gave ranges for the two. The midpoint of the range for savings is about 730 billion. And if you add their suggestions on waste and fraud, the midpoint of their range goes to about 910 billion a year. And the le
if we boycott these games i know it s not a easy decision. olympic games are basically done. russia and china will probably boycott our games because we have them in los angeles right after that in the spring. this is one thing i would say back then pure amateurs. literally that was it. if you were getting paid, there were no professional hockey players if you were getting paid you were banned almost like steroids. this is their window athletes. doesn t need play winter games. hockey team doesn t need to play. track and field and down hill skiing and speed skaters this is their moment to be beth hyden or eric hyden you don t ever get to know these guys or women if they don t play. the diplomatic boycott is true. we should have had is the outrage when they were given the games to begin with. the outrage which will russia was given the sochi olympics. look out taiwan after these games. the only thing keep russia and
who are openly gay. so obviously that flies in the face of russia s anti-gay laws. do you support the choices of this delegation and the political reason why the president is going to avoid going? um, you know, i really don t know all of the specifics about i wasn t told anything in regards to why the president wasn t going or i just kind of, probably like you, got a list of people that were going and one of the people that s going is a fellow speedskater, eric hyden, and i think it s always good to have a group of well-rounded people there, and so to me, i just look at that time as it s definitely another way to represent my country which i m very proud of. so, you know, yes, i was there as an athlete for four timesoly another role, and i hope that i m able to, you know, stand up and and bring that great
0 has been held constitutional by another federal judge, so it will be an issue that will go all of the way to the supreme court. i think those are business recor records. i think a lot of the american opinion that you have against that is because people think that that s taking the content of those records and it isn t. it says number such and such on call such and such on this duration on such and such a day. that s it, but the fact that all of those numbers are stored so that when the terror suspect out of the country calls one of those numbers, then they can see the transactions that might have occurred that number and if they go to get the name or the content of that conversation, they have to, under the law, go caught in a situation. he shouldn t have said what he said, but it is explainable as to why he did and in reference to a senate-approved nsa director, your thoughts? well, we already confirmed the four-star general. that is a conversation by the senate what this proposal
good morning. grand old night. republicans win the governorships in both virginia and new jersey, even though president obama had stumped for the democrats. is it a repudiation of the president and what does it mean for the democratic party natiwide? this morning, the view from both sides. tragic end. three missing college softball players found dead inside a jeep submerged in a north dakota pond, two days after they placed panic calls to friend. this morning, what investigators think happened. and 100 days to vancouver, and as you can see, we re throwing an olympic-size party on the plaza today, wednesday, november 4th, 2009. captions paid for by nbc-universal television and good morning, and welcome to today on a wednesday morning. i m matt lauer. i m meredith vieira. that s either the olympics music or the triumphant march of the republicans yesterday. we re being told the president did not watch the election results, but i bet he s hearing them this morning. d