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Sustaining forces. But its no time to rest on our laurels. We have many others pressed that now is the time to keep the progress going, keep moving forward and not to expect the trend will continue, but to get ahead of it and keep moving down the path. I think from our good, certainly after the economic downturn, we did see a slowing in the growth of overall costs and medicine. Do we believe, 18 of gdp is health care. The unchecked prediction as to be 25 of gdp by 2025. Now is the time to impact occurs. Although lucena moderation in growth were recently, we have seen a spike again. So i agree it is time to really focus after as part of the implementation of the Affordable Care to really focus on cost. Agreement on the send . Yes, i think so. One of the concerns be seen as slowing the rate of growth in that occur in particular, we have allowed vb programmers in the medicare system right now. 65, 66 years old relatively low utilizers at the population as a whole. 15 years or not, baby bo
Dosed with pcp to quote Rachel Maddow gop leaders bankruptly abandoned the strategy they had announced hours earlier to avoid a Government Shutdown. The plan was to pass a debt ceiling bill that included everything from gutting wall street reform to undoing environmental regulations as well as what White House Press secretary jay carney said yesterday. The only thing i didnt see mentioned was a birther bill. Even this did not satisfy about two dozen of the most extreme members of John Boehners house of crazy cards who want to duke it out over the looming shutdown before moving on to the catastrophic debt ceiling. With the house party caucus unable to support anything less than deporting the president to kenya in exchange for paying bills, a Government Shutdown appears more and more likely. As political rights, nobody, not even those in charge, know how the budget battle will end or if it will end. Or perhaps nancy pelosi described the republican plan best. I dont know that they even kn
People take advantage of the somebodyat giving money to do things is incentivizing them to do nothing. Well, you know, i think that is a lot of the debate over welfare reform in 1996, that a lot of people felt like that, that we should not incentivize people to stay home and not work areas that i think there are a lot of misconceptions about that. As it turned out with welfare reform, a lot of people getting will fair back in the 1990s were working. Know, the Welfare Benefits in the 1990s, you could get maybe 400 a month for a family of three. No one can live on that. It was a fiction that 400 a month could keep you home. That money is even less today. I do not know anyone who had the opportunity to take a job versus get food stamps and would take the food stamps. It is just not enough money. Obviously you can make more working and have a better life. Its a pretty easy ovulation. Im sure there are people out there who may be working the system. A pretty easy calculation. I think they a
Process is underway in washington. Just moments ago, a full six months after the u. S. Began launching air strikes in the battle against isis president obama requested authorization to use military force in the battle against isis. If that sounds retroactive, it isnt supposed to. When i announced our strategy against isil in september, i said that we are stronger as a nation when the president and Congress Work together. Today my administration submitted a draft resolution to congress to authorize the use of force against isil. The proposal is theoretically designed to avoid another costly bloody war in the middle east. It would authorize military action for only three years. There are also happens to be language that seems really broad or at least really vague. For instance there are no geographic limitations on the battlefield itself and the enemy is defined as individuals and organizations fighting for or on behalf of or alongside isil or any closely related successor entity in host