the talking with julia rovner of kaiser health news. caller: a couple of quick things. i'm trying to get my point here. as far as pay more taxes for better insurance, we pay twice as much for our medical expenses. right now, i am paying about $15,000 per year for insurance and that is including medicare supplement and a blue cross blue shield thing. that's a lot of money. collegiate 200 -- i only get $239 a month for social security because i worked for the government and they penalize you if you are a government retiree, no matter how little your retirement check would be. with the issuance be so much, i pay $50,000 for insurance, i could easily pay -- $15,000 for insurance, i could be happy and have $7,500 left to my benefit. guest: that is the trade-off. those are the decisions that we need to make. are we willing to penalize -- pay the health system less, hospitals, doctors, less than they get paid now that will lower the cost of insurance and people would have more money in their pocket if they paid higher taxes and the government will provide more of the benefits

host: julia rovner chief correspondent with kaiser health news. thank you very much.ning today march of life rally is taken place in d.c. you can see supporters are gathering to begin their rally. they will have a speaking portion and a thin all of them are expected to march up the national mall to the capital and supreme court today. this march takes place annually here in washington days before the anniversary of the roe v. wade decision. it is the first time the mark has taken place since wrote -- roe v. wade was overturned. we want to note do you support or oppose more restrictions on abortion access? you can start yelling in now. we will get to your thoughts in a minute. earlier this morning we talked with the reporter of the washington post about this year's march for life. i begin by asking, why participants are taking a detour today? >> there taking a detour going from the avenue and taking a detour to walk past the u.s. capitol. it is symbolic of what abortion advocates of saying they are telling members of congress and they want to see lawmakers in congress