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that's not something we took on in a maj yomajor way in our pla. that has to happen at the federal level. >> larry: how do do you it? >> we're paying docs and honts for all they do. the more they do, the more they get paid. i think it makes sense to provide options for paying them for a given treatment for somebody who has a condition, one solid fee, if you will, then let them do whatever's necessary to give them that treatment. >> larry: and no government involvement? >> well, government plays a role. but the right answer in health care right now is not to say how do we put more government into it with more controls and regulations. that just -- that stops innovation. the right way too fix health care is to say how do we get it to act more like a consumer driven free choice market? how do we get government out of it, if you will? and government has to play the role of making it more like a market. but encourage the right kinds of incentives so doctors and hospitals and patients do the right thing. when you have, what, 38, 40% of americans obese an

that's two mons later that originally plaed. >> ( anslated ): we promise the iraqi peop to hold good and honest electio that will meet tir demands and honor theiconfidence. >> ifill: but members ofrime minister nou al-maliki's ruli party said the surgents' mean to shake the publ's confidence. >> ( translated ): today's bloody explosions araimed to hinder theolitical process, specifically the electoral procs. >> ill: other lawmakers said iraqis are angry at the faile of their own forceto secure the cotry as the u.s. military dwdown continues. joining me from baghdad wh reports from iq for the chstian science monitor and global post,n international news website welcome. we he been through a period ofelative calm it seems in iraq. i wonder if today's attacks aren'the beginning of the end of that. >> well certaiy this is a ty that's on edge, gwen. everyone is expecting more violence in the n-up until the elecons in march now. we've seen that in aust. we've seen thain october with major bombings of ministries. this was kind of morof the same. the attacks were governmen institutions. in fa

and in the long term, one could imagine such aÑi[o mission pla in a viable and constructive role androviding member of congress with the cover necessary to come up with the kind of deal that i talked about before and then using pay-go and related kinds of procedures that john mentioned to lock that in place. blame avoidance is a powerful incentive and as alan murray describes in his book t tax reform act should not have passed based on the legislative theories but it did. the reason is nobody wanted to take the blame for killing it. you can imagine the situation down the line to come up with a package that is credible with general support and we could use pay-go rules and others to lock in it place. >> two advertisements in one session. that is really good. it is still available -- amazon.com. and it is an interesting point. you are saying you have to have a bipartisan agreement to proceed the use of rules. >> well, no. what i am -- well, it depends. in this particular context, this could be slammed through on a party line vote. need a degree of bipartisanship. >> to add on to that,

oration of the pla where t.a.r.p. has fallen short. you made it a busy news day by announcing at the same time that res ri will extend -- treasury will extend t.a.r.p. until october of next year. thus it seems between the two of us we have intensified a vigorous debate in congress about what direction the program should take going forward. as the starting place for our conversation, i want to note the conclusion of our report. t.a.r.p. was an important part of the government's rescue strategy. and it helped rescue the financial system from imminent collapse. the apocalyptic fears that we were all suffering 14 months ago have not come to pass. and for that we owe a great debt of gratitude to the public servants who tiled through the darkest -- toiled through the darkest days of this crisis but as the report also highlights t.a.r.p. has been far from an unmitigated success credit for consumers and small businesses remains scarce. the foreclosure crisis continues unabated and treasury's mitigation programs have not achieved the scope the

currently used by the fdic for failing banks, that would permit the government to wind down a troubled plan a way that protects financial stability but that also imposes losses on shareholders and creditors of the failed firm, without costs to the taxpayer. imposing losses on creditors will help address the too big to fail problem by restoring market discipline and leveling the playing field for smaller firms, while minimizing the disruptive that that is on the financial system and the economy. third, our regulatory system requires a better mechanism for monitoring and addressing emerging risks to the financial system as a whole. because of the size of our financial system, that task may exceed the capacity of any want regulatory agency. the federal reserve therefore supports the creation of a systemic oversight council made up of the prince of financial regulators to identify developments that may pose systemic risks, to recommend approaches for dealing with them, and to coordinate the responses of its member agencies. to close, i would again note that in the fall last year, the united st

first of all if i am in a plane, i don't want to find out if there is a bomb çin the pla 40,000 feetional screening. and people say çthat çthe lis too big, and others when the list was small, people were not appropriately screened. and the obama administration has to strike that balance. and we can't always cave into political correctness and to keep americans safe. host: the response to al-qaeda and other groups and that response over the hours? guest: you make a great w3point that al-qaeda is not the only ç group that seeks harm.q and the same things that work for stopping al-qaeda are the same that stop people that try to do harm on qtheir own. the patriot act and other tools can stop those in the beginning regardless i]of the perpetrator. host: we have terry on the line. caller: good morning, i want to ask the question, i am for the security.ñr i wanted to find out from the young lady, are they expecting' administration to start from scratch in protectingi] us or h the republican party when they were in office, do they have ç can #wç caller: how can the"se republi line talk

of commutes to before somebody gets on a pla pnene and the way you calculate the limits that pilots, the number of hours they can fly, how you -- we talked a lot about this but i want to hear your thoughts and perspective about how this can be addressed. that is clearly very much at issue in this particular incident where you had pilots come in. were sick and had had long commutes, sleeping in the, you know, wherever the crew is, wherever as they log hours sleeping but clearly adds to the amount of time that they have been flying and been up. and i'm sure it has got to affect their ability to be alert when it comes time to actually fly the plane. >> well, that's an issue, we have talked about it several times here. i am concerned that simply to come up with a prescriptive rule to identify pilot commuting is really not much of a burden on the carrier. the pilot would simply have to leave home earlier in order to get some amount of time. i'm presuming everybody is saying you need to be some place in some zone but it is very difficult, you know, when we begin to think about what is goin

that provision, that is, the cadillac plan provision, would raise costs for those folks who have those pla plans. the congressional budget office concluded that actually the premiums for those kinds of plans would be reduced -- i think the figure is 5% to 7% rather than compared with current law. several other plans have this effect. i mentioned the high tax of health care insurance premiums. our plan also caps health flexible savings accounts. it puts a cap on it so it's not just totally unlimited. now, tax -- there's no cap so that the tax code tends to encourage excessive use of that provision. in our plan, we also use the definition of qualified health experiences, the definition used for itemized deductions for medical expenses. that too will help. reducing existing tax expenditures for health care costs is one of the best ways to slow the growth for health care spending. we can use our code, use all the tools available, and our goal here is to not only reduce costs but also improve quality, and there are many provisions in this bill which accomplish that result, which improve quality

it's part of the -- it's very clear, this plaed said it. the military leadership understands it, that this is not open-ended and we are not going to escalate. we believe that these troops, this strategy, the civilian surge that goes with it, the opportunity we have, because pakistan is making progress, we've got a new president in afghanistan. the right leadership on the ground. the right leadership in the embassy that now is the time, and we can actually turn this thing around. so i don't have an expectation that we're going to get bogged down there or that we'll be, in will be requests for any additional troops. >> secretary clinton? >> congressman, i think that your focus on bin laden is absolutely appropriate. i share your frustration that eight years from the attack that devastated new york has not led to the killing or capturing of bin laden and his principleless. as admiral mullen has said, we have degraded their leadership. we have been successful in going after a number of the mainstays of his organization, but we haven't gotten hi