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>> 50% of america's gdp but in 1965 when medicare was established healthcare costs were 3% as median household income. we are saying let's give to everybody for free. that is not sustainable. heather: hospitals, a lot of people vote for this because you're putting up huge pile of money into the medical industry and ac dollar -- they see dollar signs all over the place, we push people to get unnecessary things because so many are paying for it. that is how it continues to balloon. >> we do not have an outcome-based healthcare system. we have a fee-for-service system. if we want to get serious a...

Your campaign has raised. it's amazing. you've done it all without accepting a dime of pac dollar. that's amazing. my question is, what would you tell texans who think you're being selfish with your political campaign money at the expense of the democratic party and what will you be doing with the millions your campaign has raised to ensure a strong democratic turnout in competitive races? >> thank you for being here. thanks for asking the question. to provide some context, it's been 30 years since 1988, lloyd benson, since texas elected a democrat to the senate. it has been precisely since fo...

That you described. one, we could expand medicaid. this state left $100 billion on the table. starting at the moment when the federal government was going to spend 1 hundred cents on the dollar to expand the program, ensuring more families got more care. we could introduce medicare as an option on the exchanges. concerned about rising premium costs? so am i. let's control them with some downward pressure by introducing medicare as an option, lower price, expand selection and choice and ensures, again, that more people get more care. now, on this last part of it, it could be medicare for all, i...

Country, that's not right. when you have a junior senator who wants to turn our tax dollars into vouchers, take them out of those classrooms, away from those public schoolteachers at a time when we desperately need more, not less investment, that's not right. so a higher minimum wage so that you can work one job and focus on that and investing in the next generation, and investment in education, starting public education not in kindergarten but in pre-k. now, that doesn't come cheap. it's not easy to do. but it's an investment that pays dividends. if we put $76 billion up over the next 10 year...

Age of 65 have a preexisting condition. i mentioned that we are the least insured state in the united states of america. hard to believe that in the year 2018, in the wealthiest, the most powerful country on the planet, we have people crowd funding insulin treatment for diabetes, schoolteachers succumbing to the flu because they don't have $119 co-pay for the flu medication that they need to keep them alive. parents like you living in anxiety, wondering whether those preexisting conditions will continue to be protected, when you have a junior senator who has promised to repeal every single wor...