alec macgillis is the author of a new book on the law. on the republican line, our first phone call. go-ahead. you are on the air. >> caller: this is sheila. >> host: my fault. go-ahead. >> caller: the high risk pool in georgia, our insurance commissioner said that he sent a letter to kathleen sibelius saying that george was not going to approach this state. i am one of those people that need insurance because of preexisting conditions. is the federal government going to take that over? >> they are. he was the first commissioner to say he was not going to be along with setting up the high-risk pool in his state. was another aspect of the state's rights opposition we are seeing which has mostly manifested itself in people being saying they're going to sue about this mandate. if the insurance commissioner came out and said he was not going to help with this high risk pool kathleen sibelius' said the federal government would be able to sort of do that if there's a provision in the law that high risk pools will be -- states will not be left w