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Thank you for joining me today. It is a delight i thoroughly enjoyed your book. It is a timely subject as you may know im a pharmacist the only one serving in congress is also important that everyone would agree with that. And i find it interesting that you start the premise that the Health Care System is broken. Almost 70 percent of america say it is broken. I do think it will be a domestic policy issue in the next president ial election in a recent poll that said 35 percent rate healthcare as extremely important and 53 percent of americans support a singlepayer now 65 percent supports the Government Insurance plan and i call that the steppingstone approach to medicare for all. The proof is in the pudding if you look at what happened the last election cycle two years ago, my party, one year ago, the Republican Party we were ousted as a Majority Party in the reason was healthcare that many of us campaigned on repeal and replace unfortunately we came close but did not get that done and
Care system is broken and the polls say that 70 percent say it is broken. Right. I do think healthcare will be the number one domestic policy issue in the president ial election. In a recent poll that just came out from gallup that said 35 percent of the American People polled rate healthcare as extremely important as one of the issues and we have seen 53 percent of americans support singlepayer but now 65 percent are supporting the public option which is a supplemental Insurance Plan to compete i call it the steppingstone approach to government run healthcare. Host they say the proof is in the pudding if you look at the last election cycle two years ago, my party were ousted as the majority in the house to make the argument regarding healthcare and many of us campaign on repeal and replace and unfortunately we did not get that done and that was shown at the ballot box. Exactly. Donald trump won the presidency to say we will repeal and replace obama care and it is a disaster turning th