. >> thank you, grofere. i wanted to tell you quickly about two efforts that we are undertaking with americans for prosperity and the americans for prosperity foundation. first of all, we have a petition that is online now under patients first and the website is joinpatientsfirst.com. this petition is basically protesting against everything that you've heard here today, saying we do not want to have ration care, saying we don't want to have delayed care, denied care, or any more government control over health care than we already have now. in fact, we'd like to see less. we'd like to see real reforms focused on patients. i encourage you to join patients first, join patientsfirst.com and check that out. i also have the privilege of introducing today someone who has been very helpful to all of us americans in sharing her own experience and telling her story. and i'd like to give her a couple minutes to introduce herself to you. hopefully she can do any interviews with anyone else who would like to speak with he