Mark Begich: “And is there a legal requirement, they have to do that?”

I want to make sure my colleagues hear exactly what you are saying, so a couple years from now, we do not hear complaints that, geez, why did you not do it?

Implementing the Affordable Care Act eclipsed things.

We have a responsibility to protect the most vulnerable among us.

Just assuming the private sector is going to absorb all this is not realistic.