Wonderful opportunity. Do you see yourself being acting commissioner if he steps down as well . Im Principal Deputy commissioner and i love it, thank thats all the time we have. I want to thank the doctor for being with us today and now id like to welcome to stage politico Vice President for client partnerships, heidi summer. Spoke at Politico Health care summit in washington, d. C. Good afternoon, everyone, im ryan,bj playbook and the host of politicos playbook deep dive podcast and public conversation here for you all, its actually our first live taping of the deep dive podcast, so thank you for joining us for that. If you want to know more about this podcast, theres a q. R. Code in our program so please check that out. Kellyanne, welcome and thank for you doing this. Thank you for having me. Thank you,ryone. Were headed into a rematch between former President Trump and President Joe Biden and the politics of health care will be central in this campaign, and whoever wins this electio
7uw ng the go to is point out the extremes on the other side. I think thats pretty obvious. And i think onc. Trump and tiktok, it was fascinating sounds like an off the cuff issue for trump and not something hes going to care a whole lot about working with people who dont agree with him on this issue. So thank you very much for listening and participating in here. Id like to welcome now politicos Global Health reporter harmon hahn to the stage for the next conversation. Thank you all. S hello, everybody. I know you listened to a very interesting conversation. My name is carmen hahn, a reporter at politico. Today were going to be speaking to u. S. A. Administrator samanth7f power virtually and were grateful for her to make the effort to talk to us even though shes not here in person. Is. Hi administrator. Welcome. Im going to sit down. So we have a lot of things to talk about today. And its probably going to be quite ambitious for 20 minutes but i wanted to Start Talking about your work
So matt its wonderful to be with you and its a delight to be able to get to do this with you. And weve known each other for years, and i find you to be a singularly happy, hopeful and patriotic person. And i think anyone who cares about our system of governance and representation will learn a lot from your hard work and your deep research. Despite the subtitle, the swamp creatures, latte liberals and ruling class elites cashing in on america, you do not aim with filthy rich politicians to enrage your fellow citizens. You instead outline rational, doable, commonsense reforms that we can all support and we should. So lets dig right in. Why does it matter that politicians are rich, even if theres a perception that they are allowed to feather their nests . Yeah, well, look, i think that the reason it matters is that it is eroding trust in, liberal democracy and elected officials. And we have seen a correlation. I would say in the last four or five decades between the gap widening, between
Thank you for being here today welcome to the staged Vice President for clientt heidi sommer. Good afternoon everyone. I name is ryan i am coauthor and host of politico playbook deep dive podcast. In addition to this being a public conversation for you all this is our first alive taping of the deep dive podcast. Thank you for joining us for that. If you want to know more about that podcast there is a qr code in your program so please check that out. Welcome, thank you for doing this. Clicks thank you for having me. Will set the stage for our conversation. We are headed into a rematch between former President Trump and president joe biden. The politics of healthcare will campaign. Whoever wins this election healthcare policy will surely be central to the next white house. You are President Trumps campaign mager. House and you are in charge of somecy aspects of healthcare policy. The enormous amount of work in this political cycle on healthcare strategizing politics. Cannot think of a be
You. And weve known each other for years, and i find you to be a singularly happy, hopeful and patriotic person. And i think anyone who cares about our system of governance and representation will learn a lot from your hard work and your deep research. Despite the subtitle, the swamp creatures,at liberals and ruling class elis shing in on america, you do not aim with filthy rich politicians to enrage your fellow citizens. You instead outline rational, doable, commonsense reforms that we can all support and we should. So lets dig right in. Why does it matter that politicians are rich, even if theres a perception that they are allowed to feather their nests . Yeah, well, look, i think that the reason it matters is that it is eroding trust in, liberal democracy and elected officials. And we have seen a correlation. I would say in the last four or five decades between the gap widening, between our elected officials and normal average americans. And at the same time, weve seen the erosion o