host: david hawkings. guest: the caller suggests something along the lines republicans would propose. if they were in charge right now, if they were running the congress and had the obligation to be proactive as well as reactive, they would propose change to the tax code, incentives to business to provide people more insurance. i would say the only big government intervention they might go along with is an expansion of medicaid, which is the federal, state health insurance program for the poor. right now it's only open to people essentially a little bit below the poverty level. they might consider raising eligibility to get more of the working poor involved. as is much of a business-oriented free-market approach to health care expansion. guest: on this first football weekend, the basement played out in the opposing field at an away game with all these town hall meetings comes to home turf for the president where he's comfortable before a joint session of congress. does he still have a fairly -- even though