nothing should happen to somebody like patricia irvin that senator casey talked about. we failed. we crated a lot of inflation in health care by cost shifting medicare and medicaid costs on to the cost of private health insurance. it's at minimum $1,800 a family a year because we won't put the money into medicare, we've made private health insurance cost 1 arcti1$,800 more per family. you get to pay your medicare tax, your income tax, and then you get to pay a whole lot more for health care because we have government programs that we refuse to fund adequately or manage properly. that's the truth and you cannot deny it. we have cost shifted hundreds of billions of dollars into the private sector. the other problem that i see that i want to share is the assumption that we know best. you know, we don't. we're tasked with a mighty, mighty task if we're going to adjust health care. we don't know -- we haven't begun to know what we need to know to make the decisions that have to be made on health care in this country. and the idea that we're going to do this in a fitch xed period o time