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...think is reflective of me not giving clarity to Congress. It has to do with the fact that members of Congress are skittish about anything involving taxes, even though these are taxes that would not be imposed on anybody making less than $250,000 a year. It's just tough politics. Those are things that people are vulnerable to be attacked...
...then the final part of this, which we knew was always going to be contentious - and I actually think that the way this process has evolved, I like where we are right now but it's still tough - has to do with the issue of how do you bend the cost curve, because you can't say we're going to control cost inflation except nothing changes; something has to change if health care inflation is going to be reduced...
...believe that was? I guess my point is, is that you don't even get to those really tough decisions, you don't even have to get to those really tough decisions before you've already saved a huge amount of money and made people healthier and made sure that Medicare was solvent and bent the cost curve. I mean, there's 20, 25% of the cost - of the system that is wasteful right now, even before you get to tough decisions about end-of-life care...
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...same time, it's a win-win for Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, who gets to burnish his tough-guy credentials ahead of national elections early next year as well as please his allies, the ayatullahs. There's little love in Iraq for the MEK, which was welcomed by Saddam Hussein in the mid-'80s, when he was at war with Iran, and supplied with a training camp and armaments. The group is accused of repaying its benefactor by helping quash Kurdish and Shi'ite rebellions - charges the MEK has denied...