dr. marron is right. we've been more an implement of policy. our view is the tax code is used to raise revenues not to encourage or discourage the behaviors frankly because the irs isn't good at it. those are problematic when you use them to achieve certain social policies. they're very good for raising revenues. there's a reason a lot of people are afraid of the irs and very concerned about the privacy issues of having the irs become the new inch lemters of the health care law. >> let's take calls, bellevue, nebraska. carol is on the republican line. good morning. go ahead. >> caller: thank you. my question is, if we have this law, why can't the person who does not want to be involved and mandated to pay into the insurance, why can't they sign a simple form stating that if they get sick, ill or hurt in my way that they will be totally responsible for all the costs? without any government help? >> the issue is whether people can sign to wave their right in the future to seek assistance. i think the view of congress is you can't do that in the f

dr. marron is being honest when he said he was disappointed. a lot of people are upset there's almost no cost containment in this bill at all. >> jamie on the independent line. >> i think that a lot of president obama's views, they kind of get scattered and nobody really is the justice of what he's trying to do. i do hear a lot of folks calling in, and asking about the illegal immigrants and how the health care thing will apply to them. i think that in the past, president obama has addressed that. and what he said was, he said, part of the thing is, the children of the illegals, i think it's pretty -- on both sides, i think everybody understands that they're not going to be going anywhere. the thing of it is, to make them tax paying citizens, and the way to change that is to make them tax paying citizens. i do also hear the younger americans, those in their 20s and that kind of thing, asking why should they have to pay into something when they're young and healthy, and they would rather pay it as a bill. that's fine when it comes to a fractured