off of medicaid and children s health insurance programs. more, by the way, impact elderly people in nursing homes. most of nursing home care in this country is paid by medicaid. if you make a savage cut there, what happens to those people? what happens when you have a growing number of seniors in this country doigong hungry? yes, we can do better in making the government more cost effective. no argument about that one, but you don t cut lifeline for millions of americans through savage cuts. and i offered you no argument about that one. what i would we is, are we giving ourselves a collective disservice by pretending to have a structural reform debate while basically seizing resources from the weakest and those with the poorest political representation when what we really need is some sort of a band-aid, again, i