your point, he alleges how you think your life might have bone different without the ring, this peter g. peterson had a ring to it. had your father stuck with that original name, what do you think your life might have been? >> when i pronounce my name peter peterson it sounds like i was born to be redundant. [laughter] it is an interesting question as to whether in those early days having a a long greek name might have been a problem. i never experienced that directly. but as you know, prejudice can be very indirect and implicit. i do remember this much. the include klux klan pictured my father's restaurant with the sign that said don't eat with the greek. so there was obviously some prejudice there. and they didn't have any blacks and -- in nebraska, so they took another step and went to the freaks, i guess, so there must have been some prejudice. tavis: how were you about this time, do you recall? >> i was about eight or nine years old when i started working in the restaurant. i took cash. always pretty good at math. i made changes at the cash register. i was an aggressive character. my father

controller general, president and ceo of peter g. peterson foundation.we've been talking a lot about health care today. we've got serious thoughts about where tough decisions are going to have to be made to pay for health care to everyone. >> right. let's kind of review some of the things that happened so far today. on prescription drugs there are going to be some issues on the limited reimportation. competitive bidding for prescription drugs for federal c programs and potentially a limitation on advertising prescription drugs. most industrialized nations don't allow that. there's a constitutional issue. if you ling it to whether you're eligible under federal programs you can deal with the constitutional issue. we've got secretary sebelius whc i have a great deal of respect for but frankly i was disappointed she didn't answer questions. i didn't feel picked on because she didn't answer anybody's cc questions. there's a serious issue of what's the cost beyond ten cc years. prescription drugs, you know, wc made a huge mistake on prescription drugs because