Thank you very much, Mr. PBO and panel, for appearing before us. I used to read about you in the papers, but it's nice to see you personally.
I was looking at Mr. Morgan's study from 2015. That model says that it's going to save us $7.3 billion. I think there will be savings on top of that, because people who don't have the coverage now are costing health care a lot of money too. I would like you to look at that number for people who are not covered right now by health care and don't have coverage for prescriptions. How much savings would there be?
Mr. Carrie was saying that it's going to cost us about $17 billion more. Right now, somebody's paying for that. I believe that money will be going into the pharmacare pool, and I don't think that it actually will cost the government $17 billion more. Maybe we could have copayers or taxpayers or something to recoup the money that we're going to lose.
I would like to see the study.... If we were to go with Mr. Morgan's model, we would save $7.3 billion. How much money are the people who don't have that coverage now costing the system? That will be a saving for us too, in other words. I would like your thoughts on that.