president, leet me just conclude by -- let me just conclude by comment on a piece of legislation that senator mcconnell and i introduced. i'd love to have every one of my colleagues cosponsor this legislation. i'm hoping that we can get it adopted very soon, before we take up health care reform, because it will inform us as to how we should deal with health care reform on the one hand what could be the most important -- on what could be the most important issue that americans find in this whole issue. americans want their fellow citizens to be insured and they want costs to be kept in check so that they can afford insurance. they want both of those things. but they don't want their care, the care that they, according to public opinion surveys, that they believe in and they like -- they don't want that care interfered with in order to achieve these other two goals. one of the things they're most fearful of is that their care will be rationed. when we talk about saving money in medicare in order to pay for insuring more americans, seniors rightly question whether or not some of the care