John B. Breaux: “Yes, I take it that you cannot approve loans for research-type of projects. You can only approve loan guarantees for…”

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

My opinion is that in order to ever reach an agreement between the two parties, Congress is going to have to combine the best of what government can do with the best of what the private sector can do and put the two together.

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.