i believe, folks, it is time to change the mccarren-ferguson act so you lived this protection that theaws. there are only two industries in america that have protection from antitrust laws. you talk about holding costs down and have a more choice and competition -- changing mccarren-ferguson so the insurance companies are not protected by the antitrust laws ought to be a priority. >> number 883 and 870. who has 883? >> my name is chris ashley and i am really concerned about the financial status of our government. looking at health care, i have to think about the condition of social security and of medicare, both teetering the tremendous federal deficit that seems to be getting bigger and bigger and wondering, how in the world we are going to pay for this. >> you raise an extremely important point. a bit of history, and then my sense of what is next. at the beginning of 2009, it was the general judgment of economists, conservatives, moderates, liberals, economists all across the political spectrum that there was a real prospect our country could have had a depression and a real prospect

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