Tom Carper actually said...

I have heard it often, and I believe them, so we have a responsibility here to try to figure this out.

We spend more money for defense as a Nation than I think the next five or six, maybe seven nations combined.

We are eating ourselves to death and at the same time just choking our Medicare program and our budget.

We also spend, as you know, way more money for health care than any other advanced nation in the world.