congress are prepared to work as hard as it is going to take to make this happen. and i am grateful for the work that they ve already done. i m confident that we re going to be putting in a lot more hours. there are going to be a lot more sleepless nights. but eventually, this is going to happen. mr. simon, place your bet. i think health care reform is not in trouble yet. but it s on the verge of being in trouble. i think douglas statement at the cbo is an extremely damaging one. because it strikes at the heart of what president obama is saying. president obama s fundamental argument is, we can t do nothing. because if we do nothing, health care gets more expensive and the system collapses. elmendorf is saying, well, he s half-right. if we do nothing health care does get more expensive. but if we do what president obama wants, it gets even more expensive. therefore doing nothing becomes an acceptable option. whenever you give congress the option of doing nothing, they re