welcome, everybody. let s thank the first unitarian church for welcoming us here this evening. church steps up and stands out and steps up for equal rights and social justice, and we want to thank them for that. i think we should thank comes blumenauer for holding this congressman blumenauer for holding this event. we think this is a major step toward to have this forum to talk about where we would like to go, and how you can get involved to move toward this goal. let me outline the plan and i will get out of the way. we have some major national and local experts on this issue about health reform who can help us understand these terms like single-payer, medicare for all. and help us understand the national landscape and then known and the local landscape in the state. they will be introduced in turn. will endbefore 7:00, of that part of the program and have questions and answers. , whatwho have questions we will do is there will be people with microphones up top and down be