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
during the course of his campaign, mr. trump said over and over again that he would not cut social security, not cut medicare, not cut medicaid. let me read some quotes. on may 7th, 2015, mr. trump tweeted, i was the first and only potential gop candidate to state there will be no cuts to social security, medicare, and medicaid. . on april 18th, 2015, he said, quote, every republican wants to do a big number on social security, they want to do it on medicare, they want to do it on medicaid, and we can t do that, and it s not fair to the people who have been paying in for years and now all of a sudden they want it to be cut, end of quote. august 10th of 2015 mr. trump said, quote, i will say medicare, medicaid, and social security will be saved without cuts. we have to do it. people have been paying in for years and now many of these candidates want to cut it. end quote.
campaign, mr. trump said over and over again that he would not cut social security, not cut medicare, not cut medicaid. let me read some quotes. on may 7th, 2015, mr. trump tweeted, i was the first and only potential g.o.p. candidate to state there will be no cuts to social security, medicare, and medicaid. on april 18th, 2015 he said, every republican wants to do a big number on social security, they want to do it on medicare, they did want to do it on medicaid, and we can t do that, and is not fair to the people that have been paying and for years, and now all of a sudden they want to be cut. august 10th, 2015, mr. trump said, i will save medicare, medicaid, and social security without cuts. we have to do it. people have been paying in for years, and know many of these candidates want to cut it. march 29th, 2015, trump said,
far be it for me to give advise in washington, democrat or republicans, but if were in the republican administration the new one or working with democrats in the senate i d reach out to governors across the country and align them with whatever plan i was willing to advance or hope to advance because they are the ones on the front lines with medicaid expansion. they are the ones who the citizens in their own state benefiting from aspects of obamacare and affordable care act and said on this show and network many times probably millions of americans who did not vote for hillary clinton who are actually benefiting from obamacare, actually on obamacare. so i would want some cover from governors as well as you think about some broad comprehensive and perhaps bipartisan reform on the health care act. bernie sanders tried to use the president-elect s own words against him and trotting out a giant poster featuring a trump tweet. as part of his argument on entitlements. may 7th, 2015, donal
premiums have jumped dramatically in some states but nationally they are up 20%, slower than the rate before obamacare took effect. if health insurers feel that everything is uncertain, will they drop out of the aca market places. debra admits she s conflicted. she wants obamacare repealed but she needs the coverage. i have no issue of paying my fair share but it s got to be a fair share that i can afford. in its simplest form that s the very dilemma facing the new republican congress. thanks to tom costello for that report. and during the debate on the senate floor over health care, senator bernie sanders tried to use the president-elect s own words against him. trotting out a trump tweet. may 7th, 2015, donald trump tweeted, quote, i was the first