governor bredesen?uest: a couple of things i would say about what linda said. when medicare came into being, they were reimbursing, cost reimbursement, reimbursing hospitals for their actual cost. what happened then is for hospitals not to keep increasing those costs, because they would always get paid for them, i think medicare was the beginning of this spiral of increases that we have seen. back in 1965 and 1970, we were at about the same level of a number of other countries in terms of what health care costs, and we went up to almost double those numbers over the next half a century. i think the government program medicare is one of the factors that has helped drive these costs up. it is easy to get mad at insurance companies and i have done it a few times, but remember that these insurance companies, if you take all of their profits and add them together, they do not add up to the profits of one of the big pharmaceutical companies. there is a lot of money being made in health care but being made in