and withstanding criticism and we also have the former director of medicaid into services and bill hoagland who is a favored reporter bipartisan, very helpful and a former budget committee. >> thank you very much for coming. we really appreciate everyone being here today. when we planned this conference we thought we'd be a little farther along in our discussion. we thought there'd be some conversation going on and there has been a few private conversations but not as much action as you'd expect all those many months ago. as you think about children's health coverage what are some of the key aspects that you're thinking about press a mark i'll let anyone jump in mark? >> happy to start. the chip program is a key part of children's health coverage. 6 million kids in tip and it's an important program. that being said we want to focus on the big contacts which is we have over 30 million kids in the medicaid program so we think of tip as a 15% solution, a good solution but the lion share of the lipids in the medicaid program which is tied up with the repeal and replace campaign. that's how we t