in pointing to other countries and saying it's a failure everywhere else, i look at them a little quizicly, mr. president. because when i hear -- when i talk to a canadian, they have to wait too long. that's right. they underfund their system. i don't see canadians repealing their health care law because they're unhappy with it. i don't see the brits or the germans or the japanese or the italians. they spend less than we do, have higher life expectancy, they have lower maternal mortality rate. so maybe we can learn something. now, mr. president, that being said, health care reform that we're working on, and i'm working across the street with chairman dodd and senator coburn and others in both parties writing health care legislation. health care reform first and foremost is about protecting what's working in our system and there's much that works well in our health care system and fixing what's broken in our system. that in a nutshell is what we're doing. we're protecting what works in our health care system, we need to fix what's broken. it's about giving americans the health choices and t