I will tell you it is not reassuring to me at a hearing on contracting oversight that I find out that maybe the reason that we weren't doing as well as we need to do with the hotline is because we were hiring contractors to do it.

76 percent is a huge majority.

So you can't make anybody talk to you?

Yes, that language would help.

Absolutely no sense whatsoever.

It makes no sense.

I want to make sure that we're not going down this same road without having a very clear view of what the contracting needs are going to be.

I think this is why the health care reform--you know, there is such a lack of confidence in so many institutions right now, Congress being among them, but certainly health insurance is one of the places where most people that I work for think they are getting a raw deal.

I think we need to be vigilant and stay on you like white on rice.

I guess my concern, Mr. Hemsley and Mr. Slavitt, is that I anticipated, after the hearing last week, that your testimony today would be 'we did not do this right,' not just it did not look good, but 'we did not do it right.'

I think between the agreement with Cuomo and the agreement in New Jersey, are we not talking about a half a billion dollars that you all are paying?