pressure these days, including an unprecedented invitation by the president of the united stateunited statesfor the curree over to the white house and explain why they have come back with eye-popping sticker shock numbers as they have with some of the proposals that have been made. the congressional budget office looked at a cost savings if washington adopted a national reform along what we've done in texas. they estimated that the federal government alone would directly save $5.6 billion from these types of reforms and that total health care spending could be reduced further in these reforms reduce the practice of defensive medicine. c.b.o. concluded that such reforms would increase access to health care as we've seen in texas where doctors instead of retiring decide to continue to practice where they he will feel less like hunted prey and more like the health care providers they always have wanted to be and provide healing and comfort an care to people without access to care right now. mr. president, medical liability reform can't solve all of the problems in our health care system. but no he