house. major, big, big goof, sort of, in the way the numbers were presented, yesterday? >> reporter: that's right, the president, as you describe, martha, said in the next decade, health care costs will save the federal government $1 trillion and well, the congressional budget office, who the president cited as the source for the $1 trillion figure says the first ten years, if everything works fine the health care bill will reduce federal health care costs by $132 billion. so that is an $868 billion rounding airor. which is the only -- error, the only way to describe it and i checked with the white house and i said did the president really mean saving a trillion dollars in the next decade and somewhat sheepish aides said, no, not exactly, he meant, saving $1 trillion in the second decade. of the health care legislation. and, the congressional budget office did say, it was possible to achieve savings of that magnitude, martha and bill, but, as it did so, the congressional budget office also said a projection of that kind is,
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