of the concerns she mentioned. and can t mention health care in michigan without acknowledging chairman dingell, how difficult it was to pass medicare. how he worked over these decades to improve it. how committed he is to make preserving it, and how important a part of preserving medicare is to this passing this health care bill and later, he will inspire us, with that, but, he, mr. president, as you know, as a young congressman, gavelled medicare into law. in the house of representatives. you have talked about how the presents system is unsustainable. for families, and businesses and, modern and large any size, and how it is unsustainable as you said on march 5th of last year, and health care reform is entitlement reform. our budget cannot take this upward spiral of costs. we have a moral obligation to