Mark Begich: “We don't want to do anything that drives people into having pain and avoiding what's appropriate treatment.”

Implementing the Affordable Care Act eclipsed things.

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

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?

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