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Solution involve cutting insurance companies as we know them out of the equation? >> i believe the solution -- and i actually feel very strongly about this -- is that we need to have medicare for all. that's just the bottom line. [ applause ] and i'll say this, and this is i think why you're also asking this question. what we know is that to live in a civil society, to be true to the ideals and the spirit of who we say we are as a country, we have to appreciate and understand that access to health care should not be thought of as a privilege. it should be understood to be a right. it should be...

That, such as a bill i have that would seek to reform the bail system in the united states and ultimately get rid of the cash bail system, understanding that is disproportionately applied in a way that causes people who do not have $20,000 in their back pocket to have to sit in jail for what could be weeks, months and years awaiting trial versus the people who have money get out while they're awaiting trial. but i appreciate your point. it is a flawed system, deeply flawed, and we have got to reform it, and everyone has to be onboard. and we can't accept false choices because i think we all re...

Have witnessed, inhumane. i have talked about my personal experience of my mother, who passed away many years ago, and going through the health care system with her. and she had -- she had the benefit of having medicare, but not everybody does. it is inhumane. it is inhumane to make people go through a system where they cannot literally receive the benefit of what medical science can offer because some insurance company has decided it doesn't meet their bottom line in terms of their profit motivation. that is inhumane. [ applause ] >> so just to follow up on that, and correct me if i'm wrong. ...

Something that should be rewarded. we have a system in place right now where there are so many students like yourself around the country who are preoccupied with the knowledge that they will not be able to pay off those loans anytime in the near future. this is wrong. this is an upside down system. what we need first of all, is we need a national priority and commitment to debt-free college, which i support. we have got to reform the pell grant system to allow you to actually get the loans that you need, but the government is supplying as opposed to for-profit organizations. we need to get rid...

Public. i instituted a policy around requiring the agents who worked in my division, which is the first of its kind for a state agency, to wear body cameras. i created an initiative back when i was d.a., and this is when, by the way -- this is the '90s and the early 2000s, where you could talk to d.a.s around the country, and you'd mention the word re-entry, and they didn't know what you were talking about. this is when there was a tough on crime mentality, and i created one of the first in the nation initiatives that was focused on re-entering former offenders by getting them jobs and trainin...