. >> marcia greenfield from leading age and we are part of a very large coalition of advocacy consumer groups a ranging from aarp to the center for medicare advocacy, whole group, 20 groups that have come together to support addressing one of the issues that you have so effectively raise today and that is the issue of the fact that observation status doesn't count towards the three-day stay requirements and we have been supporting as at 126 members of the house both republicans and democrats and 25 to 26 members of the senate legislation that would basically count all of those towards the three-day stay requirements, and that is hr 1179 in 569. so we leave the leave -- we leave the quandary of the doctors and hospitals and patients face that we do think that there is a simple way of resolving at least that one point which is the availability to access benefits. so i want to mention that for your benefit. >> thank you. >> yes. go ahead. >> i'm a practicing emergency physician and i work in the office of congressman john dingell in the house. this is i am sure everyone appreciates a comp