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...make his fourth term his last. "The job of being a U.S. Senator today has unfortunately become a job of raising money to be re-elected instead of a job doing the people's business," he said. In a trademark bit of humor, he added, "Mrs. Ford won't let me bring anyone home to sleep in our spare bedroom...
Well, of all the big decisions that you've made strategically, one of the most important was really to lay out the broad principles and let Congress figure out how to get there. Could you talk to me a little bit about how and when you made that decision, and why you decided, because there are a lot of people right now on Capitol Hill who are saying, We need more from him; he's got to tell us what - where his bright red lines are on this. The truth is we've actually, I think, provided more guidance than...
Well, of all the big decisions that you've made strategically, one of the most important was really to lay out the broad principles and let Congress figure out how to get there. Could you talk to me a little bit about how and when you made that decision, and why you decided - because there are a lot of people right now on Capitol Hill who are saying, we need more from him; he's got to tell us what - where his bright red lines are on this. The truth is we've actually, I think, provided more guidance than...
...let's just take one example, and that is how do you pay for the uninsured who would be receiving some help, some subsidies, through this plan? Very early we identified over $500 billion from Medicare and Medicaid savings, such as the elimination of all the subsidies for Medicare Advantage, that would cover up to two-thirds of the cost of covering the uninsured...
...Let's just take one example, and that is testing. It turns out that we pay 10 times what Japan pays, for example, for CAT scans and MRIs. Well, why is that? And it turns out, by the way, that we are having those tests five, six, eight times as often as folks in other countries who have just as good outcomes...