think that the answer to that question is pretty clear, and, is, in fact, one of the reasons that barak obama was elected president of the united states. most americans do believe that all of us should have health care coverage and that nobody should be left out of the system. the real debate is how we accomplish that goal in an affordable and sustainable way? in that regard i think the evidence is overwhelming that we must end the private insurance company domination of health care in our country and move toward a publicly funded single payer medicare for all approach. our current private health insurance system is the most costly, wasteful, complicated, and bureaucratic in the world. its function is not to provide quality health care for all of our people, but to make huge profits for the people who own the companies. that's what private health insurance is about. with thousands of different health benefit programs designed to maximize profits, private health insurance companies spend an incredible 30% of each health care dollar on administration and building. 30 cents of every dollar is no

[applause] and all worked incredibly hard because we were incredibly passionate about barak obama, aliking him to be our president and that election, the work that we did actually was a transformational a luncheon. it was transformational. when how we talk about issues, race in the economy and what happened, about how some policies and government. the importance of getting rid of trickle-down and understand government was good for all of us. taught us about what grassroots could do and when grass roots will matters and across our country people came together because they want to build a movement for change not just take a little steps for change. that is what this election i think is about, what the labor movement in, certainly with the campaign in which was to build a grass-roots movement that was not just about winning the election but making change happen and that is what i think we did and now what we need to do. which is actually not just having the opportunity to make change happen and make happen. in our country needs a more than we ever needed it before because president obam

a year ago it was a dream that barak obama would be president, and what is even more special than that is that hundreds of millions of americans feel like they had a peace in that and if we continue to tap into that, the potential of this political moment is staggering. so i invite you all to join all of us in that challenge. [applause] >> is this not a great panel? this is terrific. deepak bhargava is executive director of the center for community change. he has been the center all about grass roots community organizing and organizing to change public policy to improve the lives of poor people there and he's made the center a leader on immigration reform, helping to build it there immigration reform movement. many of those folks are here and will be joining us tomorrow. i hope all of you will come on tuesday night's awards dinner where deepak and the center for community change will receive our paul wellstone progressive leadership award. [applause] please welcome deepak bhargava. [applause] >> this morning. >> good morning. >> i want to thank roger in this incredible panel hearing is

form of election where the -- you know, when you look at the primary, not barak, bought barak with a "c," barack obama, reagan had a different election than bill clinton. >> host: that is a good place to close. i want all republicans out there concerned about reagan nostalgia to hear it from the