Nancy-Ann DeParle

“Well, both of those mechanisms are things that have existed for years. We've had high risk pools in the States. They didn't work very well. They didn't really serve to provide people the kind of coverage they needed. And there's no guarantee of funding.”

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“You know um the I had been in Washington before, so I had been an intern and then a staff assistant for President Jimmy Carter, and I just always wanted to live there. And I got to that point where I was a partner in my law firm and I thought, you know. If not now, when am I ever going to live in Washington? And so I moved up there.”

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“That's exactly what the problem is. And the concern among the insurance commissioners, and again, the insurance commissioners are Republicans and Democrats, and they all agree that that kind of a system leads to a race to the bottom and leads to the kind of abuses and rules that we had before where I'm always reminded of the human stories…”

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“Big and big hearted. So what I learned from him was You know, he was a man who'd been very successful financially. but who never forgot where he came from and Really listen to the people of Tennessee. And that's what led to his very early reform of the healthcare system.”

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