steven moore and former reagan economic policy advisor arthur lafer on "the end of prosperity." and later, a real estate attorney on the housing crunch and where it's headed. every weekend's filled with books and authors on "book tv." look for our entire schedule online at booktv.org. >> "washington journal" continues. host: senator coburn, senator baucus says that when it comes to this fall that a health care bill will be on the president's desk. do you think that will happen? i hope so. we have problems in health care that we have to address. we have to address costs, access. but we also have to address our global exet yitness -- competitiveness. we now have over 17% of our g.d.p. spent on health care. it's almost twice what the rest of the world spends. there's no question we have technology that the rest of the world has. we have care that the rest of the world doesn't have. but we need to fix it. i think everybody agrees with that. the question is and the real important details is, how do you do that? do you have the government take over more of it or do you allow real allo