Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
Also a couple years ago, as I was running, I did my own little model. I am an accountant. I do spread sheets.
But basically the $7,000 pays for the entire health care cost where the $4,500 is a wrap-around plan around Medicare.
That would be something I would like to find out. It is kind of a key point.
I learn a lot, and these are important issues.
isn't that the main driver in terms of the financial situation of--again, I think it is----
I think there is a reason why our eyes are in the front of our face and not the back of our head.
I have to admit I feel a little bit like I'm watching another copy of Groundhog's Day.
I would hope, and I am hopeful that that's where we'll be moving in the future.
We agree that Medicare needs to be fixed. All we are asking for is a level playing field.
I would really suggest you take a look at that GAO report.
So that is why the focus going forward has to be not the timing of this agreed-upon decision to honor the retiree health...
What are they talking about there? I have never understood that.
If it were up to me, I would set you free. I am incredibly impressed with what you are trying to do and the challenges y...
I worry about the projected growth of health care costs in a lot of these actuarial assumptions.
it is just a matter of a policy decision by the Congress.
Again, to me we are quibbling with details when you are talking about $96 billion--what difference would it make?
How will students benefit from changes that we are discussing today?
