dr. cosgrove he has joined google as an adviser to their health care system thank you for being here today. >> nice to be here. >> this is the time of year when we start thinking about being healthier. it's really hard to stick to it. >> one of the most important things is you have a buddy to do it with. maybe this mirror is the buddy that you do it with. >> if you have no freniends, at least you have the mirror. >> you need to have a partner and set a reasonable goal. >> some companies are offering financial incentives you did stuff like that. >> we did that and made an enormous difference. for example, we changed the food, we gave people incentives to exercise. we gave people incentives to stay healthy if they had diabetes or hypertension or asthma or obesity and we saw amazing results. over the last several years, our inflation rate of our health care cost has been flat. probably saved us over $600 million in cost for looking after our employees and it reduced the cost for the employees for their co-pays for their health. >> when you say keeping inflation flat in health care, that's a p