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But to do all that you need a better electricity grid.  We’ve got kind of a creaky infrastructure when it comes to electricity, and that’s one of the major investments that we want to start making.  And that, by the way, is an investment that only government, working with the private sector, can help to make. 

You’re hearing a lot of talk these days about government, and government is terrible, and bureaucrats, and they’re taking over and all this stuff.  Look, I don’t want government any more than is necessary, but there are some things that Bob or any CEO can’t invest in.  Bob is not going to build the roads to get to Celgard.  No company is going to make investments for a public good.  None of you would expect a private company to fund our military or our firefighters.  There are just some things that you can’t do on your own, and the private sector is not going to do -- it’s not profitable because if Bob was the guy who had to build the road, he’d have a whole bunch of other people driving on that road that weren’t paying for it.  So it’s not a good investment for him.

That’s where government comes in.  The same is true when it comes to something like the electricity grid.  We’re going to have to help create that infrastructure, just like broadband lines, just like a whole bunch of basic 21st century infrastructure, so we’ve got the platform in order to succeed and compete economically.  That’s what the Chinese are doing.  That’s what the Indians are doing.  That’s what the Germans are doing.  That’s what the United States is going to have to do.

All right?  I’ve got time for a couple more questions.  I can already see the -- this is my guy, Reggie Love, from Charlotte, North Carolina, by the way.  (Applause.) 

AUDIENCE MEMBER:  Reggie!  Reggie!

THE PRESIDENT:  Yes.  He already told me he’s not getting on the plane going back.  (Laughter.)  He’s spending the weekend here.

All right, I think I should -- let’s see, I want to make sure that -- I’ve got to get a woman in here, make sure that it’s balanced.  All right, this young lady right there.

Q    Thank you, Mr. President.  We’re honored to have you here today.  I’m Doris Ravis (sp) from Lake Wylie, South Carolina.  I work at Celgard.  We have wonderful CEOs that take care of us and have really helped the company grow.  My question is, though, in the economy times that we have now, is it a wise decision to add more taxes to us with the health care?  Because it -- we are over-taxed as it is.

THE PRESIDENT:  Well, let’s talk about that, because this is an area where there’s been just a whole lot of misinformation, and I’m going to have to work hard over the next several months to clean up a lot of the misapprehensions that people have.  Here’s the bottom line:  Number one is that we are the only -- we have been up until last week the only advanced country that allows 50 million of its citizens to not have any health insurance, and the vast majority of those folks work.  It’s just that they don’t happen to work for a company that is either big enough or generous enough to provide them any coverage.

So that’s point number one.  There is a moral imperative that is important.  Number two, you don’t know who might end up being in that situation.  See, those of us who have health care right now ask ourselves, well, is this something that should be a priority right now, but anybody here who lost their job and then COBRA ran out, or COBRA wasn’t subsidized the way the Recovery Act made sure COBRA paid 65 percent of the cost of COBRA -- and if you had somebody at home who was sick, or you had a child who got sick, you’d suddenly say to yourself, well, now I see the need. 

And so part of what we have to do is always say to ourselves, there but for the grace of God go I -- and have a basic safety net.  So that’s point number two.

Point number three is that the way insurance companies have been operating, even if you’ve got health insurance you don’t always know what you got, because what has been increasingly the practice is that if you’re not lucky enough to work for a big company that is a big pool, that essentially is almost a self-insurer, then what’s happening is, is you’re going out on the marketplace, you may be buying insurance, you think you’re covered, but then when you get sick they decide to drop the insurance right when you need it.  Or when you get sick they try to find what they consider to be a preexisting condition that would justify them canceling your policy.  Or there’s some fine print in there where you’ve got a lifetime limit, and it turns out you thought you had coverage, but it turns out the coverage only goes up to a certain point and then afterwards you have to start paying out of pocket.  And even after paying all those premiums, you’re now in the hole for $100,000 or $200,000, and you’re going bankrupt and you’re losing your house.

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