I mean, this is a bill supported by over 70 percent of the American people. And by almost equal margins, in every research document, almost equal margins by Republicans and Democrats and Independents. That's because the people who are against, basically the large HMOs, insurers have got the ear of the congressional majority and they have a lot of political influence. And how Washington works, for good or ill, is that people say, well who cares that there are lot of people for it, this is not very high up on their scale. The economy's doing fine.
Most people are all right.
There aren't all that many stories like Joan's. We'll let this slide. Now that's what's going on here. That's another excuse we'll have to let this thing slide. You know, this is the kind of thing you can do when you're not running for office anymore.