Michael Bennet: “It's basic economics that one of the surest ways to bring down prices is through open and tough competition.”

This is not a podcast. It is the American people's health that is on the line here.

If you are interested in, and I’m sure everybody here is, in creating a set of incentives that actually will lead to better results, that will allow us to attack fraud and abuse and waste in these systems, that is not the system that we…

These are, in my view, the fundamental issues that we face: Can Colorado be a place where middle-class families can live, where working people can live, where teachers and others can find a home?

This new facility will not only nearly double the number of detention beds, but is in a rural location, far from the organizations that offer resources and oversight.