You can see that by breaking out the contributions that made up the 3.5% gain:.
And what's funny is that Money for Clunkers, by many guesstimates, was a huge, fat failure.
I suspect he doesn't notice that Medicare is now under capitalized by virtually $40 Trillion. It's got to do at what cost, what would have occurred anyhow, and the stupidity spending. I speculate it this was another bill the Congress didn't review before passing. Even 
better let permit hospices to turn away anybody for incapability to pay in advance.
Make up your intellect : if it got so unsuccessful, then how could it make GDP grow? He made the case, very well, the economy grew due to Money for Clunkers.
