the crushing burden of health care, it is easy to become sidetracked by misrepresentations or attemp teo point fingers. when we do those things, we lose sight of what is at the heart of this debate: this reform. i want to remind all of us what this is all about -- the health care debate. it's about hard-working americans. they deserve better than to be casualties of misleading politics. the millions of americans without health care, this is a concrete and critical crisis that affects children, families, small businesses, big businesses every single day. it's about the parent who can't take a child to the doctor because insurance is prohibi prohibitively expensive. it is about the family that lives one illness away from financial ruin. it is about the small business that had to lay off employees because it couldn't afford skyrocketing health care premiums or that small business that had to cancel health insurance for its employees because it couldn't afford it. its a about the three in five families who put off necessary medical care because it simply costs too much. so we as democrats he

we need a teo desk state solution -- we need eight two- state solution in order to accompany this along the way. the status of negotiations with iran on the nuclear program was also at the top of our agenda. we agreed to work closely together. germany will try to work with its contacts to give a concert. -- to give a positive contribution. we also debated the situation on world markets. we exchanged views on the difference simmons programs that we pursued in our countries, but also talked about -- we exchange views on the different stimulus programs that we pursued in our countries. we talked about the upcoming g- eight meeting. what is important is to implement what we decided on in london. -- we talked about the upcoming g8 meeting. you have a very ambitious plan that you laid out. we will keep a close eye on developments. then the -- in the autumn when we meet we will state clearly that we will strengthening -- strengthening the multilateral system is also important. negotiations on climate change are also on the agenda. we very much welcome the hard work the united states has done i