David Walker: “You clearly need comprehensive health care reform, universal coverage for preventative wellness and catastrophic has be…”

I think there's a way to bridge this and for both sides to save face. We ought to be trying to get a credible down payment and a one-year extension to get a grand bargain.

This is not a collective bargaining problem. I mean, people ought to have the right to bargain, and we're not proposing to touch that at all.

A hundred years ago the Federal Government was 2 percent of GDP. Now it's 23 percent.

I believe that there is an opportunity that you can get administration support for something along these lines.