Come back here to try to make a difference. I want to congratulate you on the difference you have made. Now one of the questions i would ask you is why youre willing to leave a place with so much responsibility and background and capability to be willing to be the secretary of health and Human Services. Thank you, senator. When i think about the mission of the department of health and Human Services, which is to improve the health, safety, and wellbeing of the American People, its what ive literally spent my life trying to do. And so to have the opportunity to participate if confirmed, to be to serve as the secretary of health and Human Services and to try to guide that organization in a direction that would further fulfill that mission, i cant think of anything more exciting for fulfilling. I think you have the background for doing that too,
with the wide range of experience you had between the different practices and hospitals and then coming here and going through a number of Differ
i wanted to highlight something we probably don t spend enough time highlighting or talking about, and that s the full protections of what was known as the original patient protection and affordable care act. we ve had a lot of shorthand terminology since then. i know you and i have a basic disagreement, it s important to be candid about that. what a lot of people have forgotten about, and the chairman had a chart that outlined the categories of americans that have health insurance by virtue of various programs or i think the number he had on the poster about the number of americans in the employer sponsored coverage category i think was 178 million people. that s a lot of folks with coverage, who had coverage before, most of them i guess have had coverage before the legislation, and after, meaning
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we probably don t spend enough time highlighting or talking about, and that s the full protections of what was known as the original bill being patient protection and affordable care act. we have a lot of shorthand terminology since then. and i know you and i have a basic disagreement, i think it s important to be candid about that. i think what a lot of people have forgotten about, and the chairman had a chart earlier that outlined the categories of americans that have health insurance by virtue of various programs. i think the number he had on the poster about the number of americans in the employer-sponsored coverage category, i think it was 178 million people. that is a lot of folks with coverage who had coverage before, most of them i guess would have had coverage before, the legislation. and after, meaning they are