Randi Weingarten

But the, you know, the problem we have...

in terms of healthcare in America, it's too damn expensive and it's too profit-driven.

And so, and whether it's healthcare or whether it's drugs, it's too damn expensive and it's too profit-driven.

And as a result, we're constantly dealing with

How do we reduce the costs on individual consumers at the same time as medicine has gotten, frankly, better and better, and what drugs cover have gotten better and better?

But the profit motive has meant that the marginal dollar goes there, and then who pays the cost of it?

And I think that's the issue that you have, you know, every, you know, you know, periodic, I mean, routinely, not even periodically.

Now it's routinely.

Think about how much effort it took for Biden to just cap

diabetes drugs at $35 for people who are over 65 years old.

How much, you know, we just, we were joyful that Medicare could negotiate 10 drugs.

And then how long it took to get those negotiations going and how would that process.

And think about how Hillary Clinton tried to, you know, change healthcare and how that got, you know, you know, she got, you know,

you know, she just got killed during that process.

How Obama used literally all of his political capital on getting to Obamacare and how now, you know, the way in which the Republicans in Congress are trying to kill it is by getting rid of the tax credits and seeing how, you know, where it's gone.

You know, the Congress...

Look, there's a lot of stuff that's going to happen between now and 2026.

And frankly, if we don't get through 2026, we're not going to have an election in 2028.

So I don't... But I am... Sorry, I'm wearing a pro-student, pro-teacher T-shirt.

But I am hopeful that...