Welcome to public health moment from the University of Minnesota. Whether or not Congress votes to include the hotly debated public option plan in its health reform legislation this year, the overall bill will fall short of comprehensive health reform. That's according to Lynn Blewitt and Associate Professor of Health Policy at the University of Minnesota, for example. She says, no bill will include providing health insurance for all of the nation's 46 million uninsured. There'll be some movement towards universal coverage, but we clearly won't get to universal coverage in this round. The bills will make a dent in that, The ones that are being considered. But it's not going to go to zero, it's going to be maybe cut in half. You know, if the most even aggressive bill is passed still Bluett believes a bill will pass and will be the start of ongoing incremental reform. We shouldn't give up on continued work on health reform. So in some ways this might be the toehold. We need to continue movement towards reforming the system to make it better and more responsive and more efficient to provide quality care. And that will continue to happen. We'll continue to work on that over time. People like me will continue to work on this when it's not on, you know, the front page of the paper. Every day, there'll be continued efforts to continue to reform the healthcare system for John Finnegan and public health moment. I'm Mark Gerbert.