We’ve been drawing down moneys supposedly meant for Social Security… Technology drives medical costs, but we’ve allowed it. Medicare gives a lot more emphasis to procedures, not simple thinking. If we could shift the rewards in the system… We all have the belief that medicine can solve everything."

"In today's dialogue involving citizens and national and state leaders in Manchester, NH, discussion turned to the causes of America's $9 trillion public and intragovernmental debt. People suggested that causes included:

"We've enacted new major entitlement spending programs like the Medicare prescription drug program."

"The budget is on auto-pilot and there's too much partisanship."

"We’ve made government the steward of all our funding, and we’ve lost a lot of personal responsibility. Government is out of control, and we are partly to blame for allowing it."

"We’ve become a society of dependents, instead of self-reliants… And we overtreat patients."