John B. Breaux: “I think it's hers to lose. I think it's the consensus among Democrats that I've talked to that she's clearly in the…”

We want to keep Medicare. I think we want to improve the delivery system.

Just like my Chevy II, things have changed, things have improved, so our recommendation is that we keep Medicare of course.

Let me suggest it is a program that is more popular today than the Congress that wrote it.

I remember when I was in Congress when I wanted to stop something from happening, I used to offer an amendment to do a study, or maybe to do a demonstration program, hoping it never got completed.