I wasn't with you in 2004 when you were supporting the Medicare Modernization Act, which also created the new prescription drug benefit plan for seniors, and the main reason I wasn't was because it was largest expansion of entitlement spending since Medicare was created in 1965, and not a nickel of it was paid for.
Critiques the Medicare Modernization Act for being unfunded and expanding entitlement spending.
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We have an important trade agreement pending before Congress right now, Trans-Pacific Partnership.
I think if we keep setting those financial incentives to value quality, we're going to see a lot of innovation, a lot of reform by our providers themselves.
Sometimes these trade agreements are perceived as being done in the interest of the multinational, the Fortune 500 companies.
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