Has he, since Friday, asked either HHS, the Justice Department, any one at the DPC to either form a task force or do anything to bring to him either new ideas, research, data, anything to address what you described as a complex problem that requires a complex solution?

WHITEHOUSE: Press Briefing by Press Secretary Jay Carney,

Market-research executive Sterling Lanier was looking for successful new ideas a few years ago.

WSJ: Tactics to Spark Creativity

Massachusetts Institute of Technology is on the case, too: In 1999 it formed AgeLab, a research center within the university's engineering school, to come up with new ideas for the next generation of seniors.

FORBES