Barack Obama actually said...

I just want to thank Jeffrey and Marilyn and all of you who were involved in helping put this together.

We have a long-term problem with Medicare and Medicaid because health care costs go up a lot faster than inflation.

I look forward, I say to myself, what can we do for those Americans out there?

The only way we're going to deal with a serious fiscal reform is if we do it in a bipartisan way.