i mister. she has quite a warm-up act to follow. i think we should reverse that in the future. but let me get straight to your question, ron. i'm absolutely under actually more optimistic than i have ever been on the health care reform. having said that, i always say that health care is always more unlikely than likely, but it's more likely than it ever has been. and i look at all the differing reasons as to why, but i think it's important that you know these reasons and then i'm going to talk specifically about which feeds into why i'm optimistic. one, i think that you are seeing the policy discussion is much more open, it's much more integrated. none of the policies that people can unfairly, fairly mischaracterized is in these packages that members of congress are contemplating. so the sort of fear issue is hard to play on. as you know, all too often in the health care reform debate fear be told. in this contest i believe that the policy is actually served as a barrier against critiques. i'm not saying that there will be the usual hostile assaults, there will be. but they wil