and i figured out i was more temperamentally suited for corrections work than ministry. i still see this as my life s work. this is my ministry. it s not just a job. it never has been just a job for me. it s not natural to keep human beings in cages and it s not natural to be the human being that s keeping somebody else in a cage. there is something about that unnatural environment that causes the people who are the keepers of the cage to take some psychological steps to make that easier on them to the point to where you don t even really see them as humans at all. so, i ve tried to consciously fight against that tendency and hopefully i ve modelled that for some other people. it is possible to spend your career in corrections and not treat inmate like dirt and not treat these people like trash, but to have compassion and sympathy and understanding for what the families go through. and families usually go through a lot. hi, we re here to see victoria groth. can i check your i.d.,
business out there. i figured out i was more temperamentally suited for corrections work than the ministry. i still see this as my life s work. this is my ministry. it s not just a job. it never has been just a job for me. it s not natural to keep human beings in cages, and it s not natural to be the human being that s keeping somebody else in a cage. and there s something about that unnatural environment that causes the people who are the keepers of the cage to take some psychological steps to make that easier on them to the point to where you don t really even see them as humans at all. i tried to consciously fight against that tendency. hopefully i modelled that for some of the people. it is possible to spend your career in corrections and not treat inmates like dirt and not treat these people like trash, but to have compassion and sympathy and understanding for what the families go through. and families usually go through a lot. hi, we re here to see victoria groth. all right
i still see this as my life s work. this is my ministry. it s not just a job. it never has been just a job for me. it s not natural to keep human beings in cables, and it s not natural to be the human being that s keeping somebody else in a cage. and there s something about that unnatural environment that causes the people who are the keepers of the cage to take some psychological steps to make that easier on them to the point to where you don t see them as humans at all. i tried to consciously fight against that tendency. hopefully i modelled that for some of the people. it is possible to spend your career in corrections and not treat inmates like dirt and not treat these people like trash, but to have compassion and sympathy and understanding for what the families go through. and families usually go through a lot. hi, we re here to see victoria groth. all right, can i check your i.d., please? sure. my name is carol groth, i m here with my daughter, jessica, we re here to see
all. thank you, senator. [applause] well, let me end where i began, and that this is about people. this is about the retiree in minnesota who actually saves her insulin injek tore just to get those extra drops because the price has skyrocket. this is about the farmer with heart disease. it s about the teacher with breast cancer. and the bill, and i think you can tell we like each other up here, right, but this bill doesn t help those people. it makes things worse. it jacks up the premiums. it kicks millions of people off of health care, and for me, one of my life s work, it doesn t do anything about those skyrocketing prices with the prescription drugs. so i am asking people to join me as we go forward. and how we go forward, and we can do something quickly to fix
this pushes the choices back to states and would increase the cost in my state by a billion dollars by 2027. i think we will genuinely struggle as a state to meet that cost. bret: a lot of democrats say pre-existing conditions clause in here is not firm enough. here s how one of the coauthors, senator cassidy, answers the question. the legislation says nothing a governor asked for will be approved unless there is affordable and adequate coveragh pre-existing conditions. i ve worked for 25 years in a public hospital for the uninsured, sometimes treating those who lost their insurance because an insurance company cut them off because they had a pre-existing condition. my life s work has been taking care of those folks. we continue to take care of them in this legislation. bret: is that good enough for you? there s two problems with this legislation, specifically in the point that senator cassidy was speaking