dr. walter tsou it, and other witnesses that you have been so kind to bring here, i just want to leave you with us what i think it is and i want to extend an opportunity for our discussions to go far beyond the a hearing today and i want to make myself available to all of the members. first of all, we have to discuss it. the first thing that occurs to me, and i can say this to my ranking member friend, there is a notion that this single payer health care is off the table. that raises a very important question. if you take the most popular health care reform measure and taken off the table, heaven knows what it is. i guess what you are left with. the one thing i commended the 44th president about when i met with him first after his election and, he said some things that no sitting president in my experience had ever said, he said, i want you to keep in touch with me and keep me advised. we want to know what is happening and what you are thinking about. and is so i praised him for that. he made a lot of other important statements but he wanted to keep in touch was very important to me. we ha