Mark Begich: “If confirmed, I would work to ensure that these accounts are responsibly funded and maintained.”

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.

That is actually an old model. That is a model that we are trying to get rid of.

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