>> thanks, sylvia. tony blakely, who joined us thursday on "journal," his article today, his take -- even obama's supporters claim the honeymoon is over. we have this, the insurance industry claims they can't survive if they compete with a public option, if they do such a poor job, they should go. carolyn is on the line. caller: i'm in the hospital. host: i'm in for breathing problems, i had a very bad attack with my lungs and i've been here since saturday. host: how are you feeling? caller: not really good right now, a little better. i realize my department of defense insurance, issued to me because my husband is a disabled veteran, 100% disabled

this is good for businessmen was what sylvia would always say. -- was what scalia would always say. i ask him if he was aware if he knew women were in business. -- i asked him if he was aware that there were women business owners. that made "the post" because he claimed he only was interested in issues our forefathers would have been interested about. i told him that there were no "foremothers." i also heard his response and that is what your newspaper picked up. his response was, "this woman wants me to throw out the constitution." we need a different breed a supreme court justices to understand this current. we live and. the bad story is that my company celebrated their 50th anniversary. we were honored by the greater washington board of trade and received other honors. no mention in "the washington post." i think for a local company that there should be some mention greed >> i'm sorry we're not able to do that. -- there should be some mention of. >> i am sorry we were not able to do that. we try to cover a lot locally, but congratulations. >> hello. you talked earlier about the i

host: list take this next call from sylvia in brooklyn. caller: good morning, i like to address this to mr. michael ettlinger. i like to tell or suggest we do we do not need a commission to study the problem. we need to go back to the history of medicare. the original intent was for medicare to be for 65 and over. that was congress' original intent. only people 65 and over, separate from everything else -- now when medicate came and i did not know how it got involved with everybody else from everywhere in the world. but medicare was the people who had worked all their lives to put money into the system. so that when they got to be 65 -- i am 71, by the way. but before i became 71 i was under 65 -- when i went to the clinic i had to pay the doctor -- get this -- the doctor before i could see him. i think the fee was $40. i am not sure. anyway, but when i got to beat 65, then i came into the medicare system and that took care of that, ok? guest: yes, and medicare still provides care for the elderly. you are in directly touching on an importa

sylvia is on the phone from broken arrow, okla.. good morning. caller: good morning, how are you?ost: fine, thank you. caller: i'm so happy to be eligible to talk about what is going on in our world today and all around the globe. my question is, how is this health care plan going to affect medicare and medicare patients -- medicare and medicaid patients are around the world, some who cannot even afford to pay the code pay -- the co pay like at wal-mart, which is around $4? and at walgreen's, it is maybe $1.10. i heard the report about maybe getting some of his back. how is this going to help? where is medicare going to fall at? are they going to get rid of medicare, or some of things that you cannot fix, like pick your own doctor? host: the open washington *" a column says the honeymoon is over. the insurance industry claims that they cannot survive if they compete with a public auction. if they do such a poor job, they should go. carolyn is on the line, republican line. caller: i am in the hospital right now for breathing problems. i had a very bad attack with my lungs and i hav

. >> my name is sylvia and i just wanted to say that actually i wanted to thank you for writing this book that i think was long overdue. since you are involved in the kosciuszko foundation of new york by wonder if you know that a few years ago and i cannot remember exactly when, there was a play don about kosciuszko and his life in switzerland and he lived with a swiss family that had a growing the daughter, i don't remember, 70 or something, and kosciuszko supposedly tutor her in various subjects, and the girl fell in love with him, and i just wonder if it plus a complete fantasy and unfortunately i can't remember the name of the plea right or was it a touch of truth about it? at the same time that witnessed this play it was so had this great hero of america and poland ended up with a british family tutoring a girl and nobody knew who he was although he had visitors from poland according to the play and i wonder if he would comment about that? >> well, kosciuszko dedicated the last years of his life to education specifically education of serfs in poland and france and a desk, he did

. >> i'm sylvia. and i just wanted to say that actually i wanted to thank you for writing this book which i think was long overdue. since you are involved in kosciuszko foundation in new york, i wonder if you know that few years ago and, unfortunately, i can't remember exactly when, there was a play done about kosciuszko and about his life in switzerland. and he lived with a swiss family thaddeus a growing-up daughter, i don't remember 17 or something. and kosciuszko supposedly tutored her in various subjects and the girl fell in love with him. and i just wonder if it was a complete fantasy of the playwright whose name, unfortunately, i can't remember or there was a touch ofívh trut about it? at the same time, when i witnessed this play, it was so sad that this great hero of america in poland ended up with a, you know, bourgeois swiss family tutoring a young girl and actually nobody really knew who he was, though, he had some visitors from poland. according to the play. and i wonder if you could comme

. >> my name is sylvia and i just wanted to say that actually, i wanted to thank you for writing this book, which i think was long overdue. since you are involved in the kosciuszko foundation in new york, i wonder if you know that a few years ago, and i cannot remember exactly when, there was a plague done about kosciuszko and about his life in switzerland, and he lived with a swiss family that had-- and kosciuszko supposedly tutored her in various subjects. the girl fell in love with him, and i just wondered if it was a complete fantasy of the playwright, whose name unfortunately i can't remember, or if there was a touch of truth about it? at the same time, one eyewitness of this play it was so sad that this great he wrote of america and poland ended up with a, you know, bourgeois swiss family to during a young girl and actually no one really knew who he was, though we had some visitors from poland, according to the play. i wonder if he would comment about this? >> well, kosciuszko dedicated the last years of his life to education and specifically education of serfs in poland and in