and tony mauro, writing in the legal times and american lawyer magazine. let me say about the process we follow today, we will ask tim johnson to describe how this book idea came about and what he and jerry goldman hopes to accomplish with it. we will then turn to the panelists to discuss the cases they explore in their chapters, they will tell us why they selected that particular case and explain what we can learn about or arguments from their case, then we will open the discussion to broader questions about oral arguments. >> thank you for being here. this project was the brainchild of jerry goldman and are, jerry is the founder and continuing controller of the web site which holds hundreds and hundreds ofis the founder and continuing controller of the web site which holds hundreds and hundreds of hours of supreme court audio and will hold all audio released by the supreme court. both of us really have a passion for this, we thought it would be good to try to bring this process to many more people. you can go to the supreme court to hear the arguments th

if you want to save lives and cut costs to mauro you will vote for this amendment. let me explain why. under the into a kickback a hospital in a big city is prohibited from using their computer software giving that to the providers would it be radiologists or family practitioners or surgeons or obstetricians their purchasing power especially groups of hospitals and chains of costa was tremendous. they have the latest of their. if tomorrow there is no antikickback on just this section where they could share their software with all the doctors that practice after hospital you would automatically bring 50% of the hospital physician practice in this country up to the latest level of interoperable. you also would make them interoperable with their hospital and with another because they would be using the same system. so, instead of waiting two years and i think it is going to be 2012 until it's finished but let's assume and set of waiting two more years we could tamar a 150% of the physicians in this country connect them all together within interoperable standard of what