but we also have to address our global exet yitness -- competitiveness. we now have over 17% of our g.d.p. spent on health care. it's almost twice what the rest of the world spends. there's no question we have technology that the rest of the world has. we have care that the rest of the world doesn't have. but we need to fix it. i think everybody agrees with that. the question is and the real important details is, how do you do that? do you have the government take over more of it or do you allow real allocation and real access for people, maintaining personal choice, personal freedom and personal time? health scare about individuals. we tend to think of it as a program, but it's really about people. it's about what they need when they need it, and what their physician thinks they need not somebody outside of that. whether it be an insurance company or the government thinks. host: and a public plan, as it's been called? guest: first of all, just put in perspective for a minute, what does the government do well on health care now and what does it do well fi