We just spent more than an hour listening to Eric Schmidt, Google Chairman and CEO and the chairman of  New America Foundation's board, give a presentation to a packed crowd at the Ronald Reagan Building on the intersection between technology, the economy, and public trust in government. (Watch it here). 

As one might expect, Schmidt spoke mostly about technology, energy, and infrastructure—defining infrastructure to encompass not just roads and old-economy power plants but clean energy and information. He argued that economic stimulus done correctly means  job creation, and long-term investment in a clean-energy, high-growth, information-rich, citizen-empowering economy.

But before he delved into all those very Googly topics, we here at the New America health policy program (who don't really want Schmidt to know how long it took us to figure out which of the three remotes would find C-Span 3 on the office TV set) would like to point out that Schmidt, who is also an economic adviser to President-elect Barack Obama's transition, said we also need to do two other things Right Away. Fix schools. And fix health care.