carla tighe murray is a ph.d economist and university of illinois.it also worked at the pentagon but she is not at the congressional budget office and she has written recent options papers and studies on defense health care that i've talked about the ways in which among other things some of the costs might be shifted a bit more within reason to the actual members of military and their families because i think as many, as many of you know this is a very generous system in terms of the cost-sharing. and i think most of us would agree with that philosophy that it should be generous, that co-payments and other costs and premiums should be much lower than the national average but they are extraordinarily low and at a time when dod is dealing with a budget crunch. one question is can it afford to be quite a generous? this is an issue we will be talking about as well. i mention alice rivlin, in addition to having found the congressional budget office, as brookings nears its 100th anniversary in two years i would nominate her as our greatest scholar slashed