Third, if he is able to increase the focus on prevention, “by the time people [who are now in their 30s and 40s] hit the Medicare system, they'll have much more control of these chronic diseases.”
If other cost cuts are needed, then “in the first year, I think I [will be able to] cut the Defense Department by over $160 billion by ending the war in Iraq” and implementing other savings there, the senator said.
'The whole notion is changing the paradigm—front end, costs; back end, significant savings.' SEN. BIDEN