burgess, is rked for 60 minutes as -- is recognized for 60 minutes as designee of the majority leader. mr. burgess: i thank the gentlelady for yielding. the congressional health caucus wants to talk a little bit about the future of the government's role in health care in this country, and i recognize for those of you studying your constitution at this very moment you don't find the government's role for controlling health care in this country, but we will do our best to help you understand why we are where we are and perhaps where we are going with some of the federal programs that are run by the federal government. again, the congressional health caucus, the website, healthcaucus.org, this hour, i'm grateful to the leadership of the republican party for the use of this hour. myself and my co-chair, dr. -- mr. j.t. thompson from pennsylvania will be leading the discussion. we've had a lot of talk over the past four weeks about the future of medicare in this country. certainly if you look at the three plans that are on the table right now, and i understand you may be scratching your he