really appreciate your remarks, senator, and your emphasis on the importance of the budget, informed decision-making choice, accountability and the importance of a robust representative government. i think those of us in no labels, feel particularly that not only are some of our systems brok broken, as you ve alluded with some of the problems with medicare, but congress is broken now too. and we wish that members of congress were all about the importance of the budget, informed decision making, accountability and representative government. and i wonder if you could share with us your thoughts. you ve seen how sausage is made on capitol hill, and we the taxpayers certainly have some skin in the game not only with what happens to medicare but many other important issues. what can we do that could help fix congress so that some of these same principles you ve talked about today could be part of the decision-making process under way so that thoughtful proposals such as the one yo
going to be much better than what we re doing today. because there will be a consequence for a doctor overutilizing something because they ll be being watched by the very people they re contracted with if a private insurance that s competing with medicare, that they re not going to do it inappropriately. there s no controls, there s no brakes on in system now for bad behavior, in terms of the market. and what we have to have is the question is, can we have great health care for seniors and have it in a way that s much more affordable than what it s going to be inned future? and i think the answer to that is yes, and that doesn t mean we trust markets 100%. that means we let markets work but we make sure we have the controls so when market starts, if we have a bad actor in that, it s identified and they re gone. senator we have time for one last question from the audience and one last twitter question. okay, right up here. you said many times that a big factor is contr