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>> Governor, on that advocacy, you mentioned just now that you did run on single-payer when you're running for governor. Um, there's a number of candidates now who are debating. It has become quite a big issue in the current Democratic field, of which you have not endorsed. Um, what's your advice for the next governor?
>> Well, I, you know, seek first to understand before you're understood.
>> You know, caller X comes out of our strategies. The first executive order I drafted comes out of our strategies to pursue single-payer uh purchasing. Uh, we created a task force. We created a framework and a plan that was just highlighted. Created a commission in this space. Um, and we, we laid out a lot of progress. It's been promoted and discussed here today in terms of advancing the principle. But you have one giant impediment that's uh besides Orisa, and you got challenges getting a simple 1115 waiver uh from the current administration. So I think that may be a bit of a stumbling block. It's not an indictment on a principle. I think single-payer is inevitable in this country. Period. Full stop. The health care system is simply devouring the public sector and devouring the private sector budgets. There's no alternative from my perspective. I call total BS on all the fake tinkering that the Republican party claims or some new idea and proposal that's coming out next week. Donald Trump for 10 years. He's been talking about that since he came down the escalator. Nothing in this space. I appreciate and applaud what Nancy Pelosi was able to achieve and and what President Obama was able to achieve, what President Biden was able to achieve and expanding the support and what we're doing here in Covered California that I think is next level. on what we did to advance even further and beyond. But I do think the system itself is simply, you talk about structural problems. It's an inevitability. So the question is, can a state do it? The CA state cannot do it alone. It's going to require a level of partnership and large of the federal government that is not in evidence. That is not an indictment of the vision, the proposal, the the the the direction that some of the candidates are promoting. Um, I, I intend to share it. The question is, two terms they might have given that they >> it's going to require, as I said, it is cannot happen without the large s of the American people, Congress and the president. Um, by definition, it requires significant waivers and reforms at the federal level. And um, and I assure you on the basis of the efforts when I was governor working in the beginning of my administration with then President Donald Trump, who immediately rejected our outreach on many of these waivers. There's a lot of letters I I'll remind you of, some that were responded to, some that weren't that there's and I think it's even more challenging now in that respect. Uh, I just think um, you may want to have a, if that's the only strategy you have for healthcare, you may want to have a backup plan. That's all. Even though it's the right, I think an inevitable um um it will be inevitable in this country. No question of when. I don't know. UI debt.