are contradictory and may be confusing statements about have been made by president obama and kathleen sibelius to be a fact that on the one hand the health bill that was passed is supposed to lower health-care spending and is supposed to put medicare on a better footing. at a different press conference at a different time, they say the cuts that are required in payments to physicians are intolerable and they are fully behind doing something about it. it is hard to do both. either we will have significant cuts in payments to providers that will affect beneficiaries or we are going to let those payments to providers increase at the rate of growth of health care spending generally. what we want to do this morning is focus on what the law really says and look at some projections of what would happen if we actually implement it the way it is written. to help us, we have two former trustees of medicare. we will begin with professor thomas r saving zero is the director of a private research center at texas a&m. he is a senior fellow of my on institute, the national center for policy analysis and he w

including comments from kathleen sibelius and attorney general eric colder. this is three hours. >> i am delighted to welcome you. we have a great program plants started with some major presentations this morning. we have three panels later on. before we began, i would like to express our gratitude to our gracious hosts, the president of los angeles city college and the executive director of the l.a. foundation. i would like to have you join me in greeting -- dr. more? [applause] >> thank you. welcome to los angeles city college. i am president of the campus. we would like to say a special thank you on behalf of the faculty, students, and staff to secretary sibelius and attorney general eric holder for bringing this important summit to los angeles city college. your success in fraud prevention will mean for us that many more health care dollars remain in our community. we would like to thank you for the hard work that you are doing and wish you much success in your summit today. thank you for coming out to los angeles city college. [applause] >> i would very

she is joined by kathleen sibelius. >> did they provide people with a number for next year? >> i believe the number for next year is the same it was for this year. 80,000. >> we expect an announcement from the white house. >> that is a good question. we will find out. i will be happy to provide details on it. >> i will defer to the pakistani authorities. i think they are working with the government to investigate the incident earlier today. we have multiple routes to reach the supply. we are aware of one with the pakistani government. we have given the frequent descriptions. this is the kind of allied you want? because of the supply route. >> we are talking to the government of pakistan. there has been an incident along the afghan/pakistan border. we take seriously our responsibilities as a partner. there is a review on going. >> we met with the president today. >> we have a range this issue with the pakistani government. we have encouraged them to investigate it fully. we take all human rights allegations very seriously. there is also the issue of extrajudicial killings. it