affordable care act, obamacare, has failed? any prospects of bipartisan cooperation to try to improve, to fix some of the serious problems of obamacare? oh, sure. i mean, you heard senator alexander and senator murray, chair and ranking member of the health committee on which i serve announce we would have hearings in september about how to make the improvements that democrats have been calling for, for some time, and hoping to work with republicans on. and you know, democrats and republicans have been working on the opioid crisis together as well. senator young and i have both successfully put into the fda reauthorization critical work to make sure that doctors know about the dangers of something called abuse deterrent opioids. so we have been doing some work together, and there is bipartisan interest in particular on the opioid crisis. it affects people from all walks of life, all across our country, and we really need to be coming