You get very lower but low numbers for Discretionary Spending. Can we run government at a smaller gdp than we had in 1940 . I dont think so. But the other thing that has happened that may not be sustainable is that the rate of Health Care Spending has slowed. Its slowed dramatically. We are not quite sure why thats true. Part of it is the recession and we mayowth and low have come to our senses and realize that our Health Care System is an efficient. True. Both are we are working very hard where i am at the Bookings Institution on how do we keep these reforms sustained so we can produce more health care for less money. That is a work in progress. Not clear. But i think that is where things are. Do you worry from a messaging of beoint, in a position careful of what you wish for . In another panel, there were a lot of people raising the point, in 2009, 2010, we have to do something about this at this debt. We got the opposite of what they were asking for. They wanted larger deficits in t
Code, as many as 5 million lines of code that need to be rewritten. Experts say it could take weeks to help all of us noncomputer nerds, the healthcare. Gov contains 100 million lines of software code. Large banks about a fifth of that. So a major undertaking indeed on something that is too big to be allowed to fail. Peter alexander is at the wougs. What is the white house going to do . Reporter toure, thats a good question. The president s strategy today was to try to create a pretty good distinction between the website and the Health Care Law. Of course, to keep with his own metaphor, this idea of a shopping store, grocery store, if you will for a lot of people, the website is the like the sliding doors, that is the entry way to best understand the law. Thats why this has been so taxing to the white house. It should be spending his Political Capital on budget talks, not trying to defend the obama care website. One of the things to focus on over the next several days and weeks is exac
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One more question . I am a principal. Are at that stage of Social Security and we talked to a lot of people. It seems like there are ways to maneuver the system to get more and more if you do it right, which doesnt sound right. There is actually a book written on ways to make more money on this. Todoesnt just come right me. I want to do the best thing that i dont want to do something that is going to hurt others. I just had a granddaughter graduate. You can design any system whether it is the tax system or medicare or whatever it is that somebody isnt going to write a book on how to gain the system. They probably will make money on it. Very careful when you are drafting things so there arent loopholes that people can sneak through and get the money they arent entitled to. Stick with the big picture. Social security is an extremely successful program. It keeps millions of older people out of poverty and it keeps their children from having to support grant the. My children are probably g