No one wants to deal with costs. No one wants to deal with the uninsured. So each layer of government keeps pushing down the problems.

We should have done them a couple of years ago, probably. They are ideas who's time has come.

It's both a moral issue, and it's a financial issue. It's better to prevent than it is to treat.

There is a safety net. It's a frayed safety net and a safety net full of holes. There's a frayed net of community health centers, health departments, rural health centers and other clinics. And they provide mostly primary care.

Any change in the law that makes it harder for the public to know how much insurance companies are charging is bad and should be fixed.

We had to match their physicality. They [officials] let everything go.