Well, let me summarize, because we have run out of time, if the gentleman from Ohio will yield one more second, and that is we have established now, there is a problem, because two generations of trustees, Republican and Democrat, have told us we start going broke this year and we will finish going broke in Medicare part A by 2002. It is not a Democratic problem, it is not a Republican problem, it is a congressional problem and we have to act.
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