Tom Steyer
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And that's going to be something we're going to have to start with in California.
But really, we have to bring break this cycle of increasing costs at a level so that we can continue to deliver care and single payer is the way.
I believed incorrectly that in fact, bringing new information technology and business to the healthcare system could
make that curve go down, could stop the inflation of healthcare costs, could let us deliver it more efficiently.
Didn't happen.
The truth is I was wrong.
And when I look at the data and see I'm wrong, it's like, okay, I change.
And so I give Bernie Sanders a ton of credit for being right.
And it's like, okay,
20 years ago, I didn't realize that climate change was a real problem.
But when I looked at the data and visited it and heard it and understood it, I was like, OK, got to deal with it.
Same thing with health care.
I was wrong.
I've changed.
We're going to have to solve it.
And we're going to have to solve it by getting into the details and understanding it.
And that's something, look, we can see that this administration and Donald Trump are never going to be willing to do their homework and understanding health care.
And I can tell you, I'm a results oriented person who is data driven.
And that's why I changed.
I looked at the data.