mr. kramer. mr. green? >> good morning, supervisors. nato green, seiu 1021. as you know, all the up i don't knows are in negotiations this -- unions are in negotiations this year. we presented legislation for the city to correct this. it's one of the things that we would like to resolve in bargaining because our members are affected by this, too. whether they become patients, they're continuously bumping up against people in hospital administrations telling them what they can do and can't do because of the budget. so for the city to not copture the review -- capture that it could from private insurance companies, instead, nickel and diming people on the front lines is unconscionable. it's sort of lunacy that we would have a system that requires you use your provider and then not take insurance. a hospital that used overcharging to subsidize the lower income people, every hospital does that, but they call it payer mix. that's a normal part of hospital operations. normally, when we look at cpmc or other private hospitals where they're overcharging hospitals in

kramer. >> thank you, mr. chairman, and i'm honored to be on the committee. and i want to follow-up with what senator kennedy is talking about, because maybe there is more to it than simply a linear number and i suspect there is. but let's go to the next step. let's say that we were able to refer form our process so that we could institutionalize a prohibition, if you will, basically on any future government shutdowns. would there be a way to score that, the value of that, of never having to worry about one again? not just of federal workers who would be guaranteed a paycheck, you know but the economy that requires and depends on those government services to keep rolling along. would there be some way to at a value to that? >> that would be a challenging estimate. we would struggle with that. >> i'll bet it would be. because it seems to me, as we talk about all these pieces of this formula, that economic growth is the one we have had some, that we have been fairly good at. it also seems to me that the economy grows, there should be less need for government, n

joined by digital you correspondent tanya kramer who's in jerusalem hello to you tanya so netanyahu is tweet caused a real stir in warsaw what's behind it. well i mean mrs you know it's known for it taking a tough stance against iran but it was this particular use of words war against iran there was a statement being put out last night in the english translation where the first version of it actually quoted that to find a common stands. and to advance common interests in a war against iran that this statement was again then just some time later every issue that was somehow soft and into combating iran and of course the rains have. picked up on that and they said well this shows rather the true colors of mr netanyahu and also the two colors of this conference speaking about that they want to find a common alliance against iran so this is so what has been said over here and some officials said this was a matter of mistranslation all right so saying it was just a matter of mistranslation time it tell us what you think netanyahu was really hoping concretely to get out of the summit in warsaw. well on the one hand of course i mean and he made that very clear