because the workforce wants to make care better, they do, but sometimes they don t have the opportunity to do that. setting up context in which they can improve their work as they go, that s part of the job also. i am walking us through the story here, because i think it s a remarkable arc of doing the work of what somebody was doing, and overnight you were turned into a villain by this sort of conservative media complex, and you were being called a socialists. you got the full kind of van jones treatment for a few days there, and you and i are friendly and we know each other and i was e-mailing you during this. jon kyl, i will play this. the last thing the president wanted was a discussion of dr. burwick s views on health care. his views are not the views of
had to say. it s difficult to find any health care state groups that express anything less than glowing praise for his performance at cms. joining us now is dr. don burwick. this is his first television interview since stepping down from the centers for medicaid and medicare services. thank you for coming on. thank you for having me. i hope it s okay if we sit here while i read glowing quotes about you for an hour. you have my permission. what were you doing to implement the affordable care act and how poorly understood the act is in a second, but i want to start out by talking about what your background was before you came into the position that you did, why the president thought you were qualified for this position and what you devoted for career to before coming.
what does dr. burwick think about care for all? talking about the balance between the state and the federal government. in vermont, you do have a medicare for all systems, and you may see in states that emerging, because the affordable care act will come in and you need to cover more. seems to me the doctor was psychologically healthy, because i wished there were more fire in his belly. this could be unsafe at any speed, and i think it has the drama. if we who write a short book and get help doing it if he doesn t feel like doing it himself, these two bring the issues to the public. and because it s in every family s life. every family, every friend. everybody has a story. and the more in a sense, the more dysfunctional health care system that we have reaches more people, the more resident
there is something wrong, deeply wrong, with our current democratic process when the most qualified man to over see the implementation of president barack obama s affordable care act is no longer in a position to do so. dr. don burwick left his position on friday after 42 republican senators vowed to block an up or down vote on his nomination. they complained he was a socialists and citing one speech he gave as evidence as well as one quote from an interview and made sure that a man referred to by the health policy journal health affairs as quote, one of the nation s leading champions patient center never even got a hearing. and this is something else they
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