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Well, we have something like that down here. It's called insurance, you know, but the way we do CPAPs at the states ever since they changed the laws and they got it all the truckers going in for sleep studies and this, that and the others turned it into a fricking nightmare for truck drivers and just about everybody really, truck drivers and non-truck drivers. And now there's the, we're asking $10,000 for sleep studies. If you buy a CPAP machine, they're roughly running around $1,000. I need a BiPAP machine because of my helmet on my lungs. And you know, I have sleep apnea and I have lung disease. And so they run about 2000 cars. In the way the insurance companies here in the states do is they go, they sort of just say, okay, let's buy it and now reach one deductible and they cover the rest. It's not, we're gonna rent this machine, we're gonna lease this machine for somewhere between 11 and 16 months, depending on what insurance company you're with and so they'll hit you up and you know, it might be the middle of the year and you haven't had anything done yet. And so you'd be paying $230 a month for the next year six months till you reach your first deductible. And then when you get to that point, then they're gonna, they'll start paying 80% of it. And so your bill comes down to like 40 bucks. And of course, when you start in the middle of the year, the new deductible starts on January 1st. So you go back up to two or three dollars a month until you get that paid off. Now I had 11 months on mine and I had to pay, the deductible was paid the first year already but the deductible wasn't paid when it went into the new year. But when it was all said and done, even with the last charge that they gave me, it came to $1296. And it was nothing but a fight almost every month because they kept changing the payment plan and what they were charging. You never knew what the hell they were doing. And you had to keep calling them back and questioning all the time. So that was the right world, pain in the butt down here. I should have just went ahead and bought the machine, not even gone through insurance. But then when I did get sick or I've had to go to the hospital or something like that, I'd be paying double on my deductible, you know? So it was real pain in the ass having, but it works. It does work. I sleep much better because of it.