Also, the matter of safety of our health care system is a major area. The Institute of Medicine issued a report which suggested that up to 100,000 people per year were dying as a result of medical errors, and we need to do something about that. We need to address it. Physicians have been very compelling in their decrying the current malpractice system. We should be listening to them and we should be looking at alternative dispute resolution models, et cetera, and not pursuing the agenda of the trial lawyers in this regard.
Patient protection is an issue that there is a solution on policy grounds.
The major barrier to that is the political discussion and the political jockeying that's going on in this election year. The subject is, what's the role of government in health care. This has been a question that we've been debating, inadvertently, throughout the last fifty years, and it's still unsettled. In fact, the legacy of the 20th century is that we've either tried to accomplish too much in health care in terms of the role of government, or not enough. It's important for politicians, as they debate the health care issues, to talk about their very specific views about where you put the balance between competition and regulation.