Question: do you have any closing remarks? one thing i’m interested in is how you see your role moving forward.
Answer: i think it is important to remember that just because people campaigned on repealing this law, it is a much more complicated process to repeal this law than i think was being presented on the campaign trail, as my republican friends are discovering. the way this process is going to work — there’s this rushed vote that’s taking place this week, next week, to “repeal obamacare.” but all that is is a resolution that is then instructing these committees in congress to start actually drafting a law that would specifically say what’s being repealed and what’s not. and after that, they’d have to make a decision about what’s going to replace it. and how long is that going to take? and that stretches the process out further. whether you originally supported obamacare or you didn’t, whether you like me or you don’t, the one thing i’d ask the american people to do is adopt the slogan of the great state of missouri: show me. show me. do not rush this process. and to republicans i would say: what are you scared of? if you are absolutely convinced — as you have been adamant about for the last seven years — that you can come up with something better, go ahead and come up with it. i’ll even cut you some slack for the fact that you’ve been saying you could come up with something better for seven years, and i’ve never seen it. but we’ll restart the clock. it’s interesting we’re in blair house, because this is where i met in front of the american people with republicans who had already indicated their adamant opposition to health care. and i sat with them for a couple of hours — eight hours. kathleen sebelius, my secretary of health and human services, remembers, on live tv, to talk about here’s why what we’re trying to do here, and challenging them to try and come up with better answers than what we’d come up with. and i would think that given that we now have proof that 20 million people do have health insurance, that we're at the lowest rate of uninsured in our history, that health care costs, rather than spiking way up, have actually gone up slower than they have in 50 years; given that the vast majority of people who get health insurance through obamacare have said they're satisfied with their care and that they're better off than when they didn’t have care; given that even though a lot of people don’t know it, even if you're not getting health insurance through obamacare, you've benefited, because if you get health insurance on the job, it now doesn’t have a lifetime limit, it doesn’t have fine print that could end up costing you a lot of money — given all those things, i would think that you'd at least want to explain to the american people what it is that you want to do. and that i think is a minimum expectation out of this congress and out of the president-elect. i’ll make a second point. we just worked on a bipartisan basis to sign something called the cures bill that included two really important bipartisan priorities — one was joe biden’s cancer moonshot initiative, because we’re seeing so many breakthroughs in so many areas that we have an opportunity to make a real dent with cancer, which affects everybody in some fashion. somebody’s been touched in your family with this terrible disease. we got a lot more money for researching that, and the bill also contained a big investment in the opioid challenge. as many of you know, we’re seeing more and more communities being ravaged initially by prescription drugs, and that ends up being a gateway to heroin, some of which — like synthetic heroin being produced like fentanyl — has terrible rates of overdose death. this is not an inner-city problem, per se, but it’s reaching every community and is in some way worse in a lot of rural communities. there was a bipartisan effort to put more money into that. but here’s the thing. if we just put more money into cancer research and into dealing with the opioid crisis, and now we’re taking away money providing drug treatment services in those very same communities by repealing obamacare and taking away the ability to access a doctor to get new cancer treatments, then we’re not really helping anybody. so that’s a second point i want to make. a third point i want to make is i want to encourage local communities to get involved in this process. part of the problem with this whole law is that the people who benefit aren’t out there making noise; the people who ideologically oppose it have been very loud. and now’s the time for people who have benefited or have seen their families benefit to tell their stories. because ultimately, this is not a political game. this is really something that affects people in the most personal ways. my friend natoma canfield in the front row. some of you heard her story before — where a cancer survivor because she had a preexisting condition was faced with either keeping her health insurance at such a high rate the only way to get it was to pay so much that she couldn’t afford the mortgage on her house. i remember her writing to me. i thought, “that could be my mom; that could be yours.” and that’s not a choice people should have to make. and when most people, even if they’re not obama supporters, hear natoma’s story or the stories of other people who have been helped, they know it’s wrong to just take away their health care. it becomes less about who is winning here in washington but about how we’re doing right by our fellow americans. but those stories have to be heard. and i would just encourage people to start telling their stories, and to tell their stories — you won’t always get a lot of attention here in washington, because they want to know about “this vote” or who insulted who back and forth between whoever. but tell that story in your local newspapers; talk to your local reporters, congregations that are involved in caring for those in need. make sure you’re telling stories in church and in services so people know. because the one thing that i’m convinced about is that the american people want to do the right thing. it’s hard to get good information unless you’re reading vox every day, which is hard to do.
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  do you have any closing remarks? one thing i’m interested in is how you see your role moving forward.
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  i think it is important to remember that just because people campaigned on repealing this law, it is a much more complicated process to repeal this law than i think was being presented on the campaign trail, as my republican friends are discovering. the way this process is going to work — there’s this rushed vote that’s taking place this week, next week, to “repeal obamacare.” but all that is is a resolution that is then instructing these committees in congress to start actually drafting a law that would specifically say what’s being repealed and what’s not. and after that, they’d have to make a decision about what’s going to replace it. and how long is that going to take? and that stretches the process out further. whether you originally supported obamacare or you didn’t, whether you like me or you don’t, the one thing i’d ask the american people to do is adopt the slogan of the great state of missouri: show me. show me. do not rush this process. and to republicans i would say: what are you scared of? if you are absolutely convinced — as you have been adamant about for the last seven years — that you can come up with something better, go ahead and come up with it. i’ll even cut you some slack for the fact that you’ve been saying you could come up with something better for seven years, and i’ve never seen it. but we’ll restart the clock. it’s interesting we’re in blair house, because this is where i met in front of the american people with republicans who had already indicated their adamant opposition to health care. and i sat with them for a couple of hours — eight hours. kathleen sebelius, my secretary of health and human services, remembers, on live tv, to talk about here’s why what we’re trying to do here, and challenging them to try and come up with better answers than what we’d come up with. and i would think that given that we now have proof that 20 million people do have health insurance, that we're at the lowest rate of uninsured in our history, that health care costs, rather than spiking way up, have actually gone up slower than they have in 50 years; given that the vast majority of people who get health insurance through obamacare have said they're satisfied with their care and that they're better off than when they didn’t have care; given that even though a lot of people don’t know it, even if you're not getting health insurance through obamacare, you've benefited, because if you get health insurance on the job, it now doesn’t have a lifetime limit, it doesn’t have fine print that could end up costing you a lot of money — given all those things, i would think that you'd at least want to explain to the american people what it is that you want to do. and that i think is a minimum expectation out of this congress and out of the president-elect. i’ll make a second point. we just worked on a bipartisan basis to sign something called the cures bill that included two really important bipartisan priorities — one was joe biden’s cancer moonshot initiative, because we’re seeing so many breakthroughs in so many areas that we have an opportunity to make a real dent with cancer, which affects everybody in some fashion. somebody’s been touched in your family with this terrible disease. we got a lot more money for researching that, and the bill also contained a big investment in the opioid challenge. as many of you know, we’re seeing more and more communities being ravaged initially by prescription drugs, and that ends up being a gateway to heroin, some of which — like synthetic heroin being produced like fentanyl — has terrible rates of overdose death. this is not an inner-city problem, per se, but it’s reaching every community and is in some way worse in a lot of rural communities. there was a bipartisan effort to put more money into that. but here’s the thing. if we just put more money into cancer research and into dealing with the opioid crisis, and now we’re taking away money providing drug treatment services in those very same communities by repealing obamacare and taking away the ability to access a doctor to get new cancer treatments, then we’re not really helping anybody. so that’s a second point i want to make. a third point i want to make is i want to encourage local communities to get involved in this process. part of the problem with this whole law is that the people who benefit aren’t out there making noise; the people who ideologically oppose it have been very loud. and now’s the time for people who have benefited or have seen their families benefit to tell their stories. because ultimately, this is not a political game. this is really something that affects people in the most personal ways. my friend natoma canfield in the front row. some of you heard her story before — where a cancer survivor because she had a preexisting condition was faced with either keeping her health insurance at such a high rate the only way to get it was to pay so much that she couldn’t afford the mortgage on her house. i remember her writing to me. i thought, “that could be my mom; that could be yours.” and that’s not a choice people should have to make. and when most people, even if they’re not obama supporters, hear natoma’s story or the stories of other people who have been helped, they know it’s wrong to just take away their health care. it becomes less about who is winning here in washington but about how we’re doing right by our fellow americans. but those stories have to be heard. and i would just encourage people to start telling their stories, and to tell their stories — you won’t always get a lot of attention here in washington, because they want to know about “this vote” or who insulted who back and forth between whoever. but tell that story in your local newspapers; talk to your local reporters, congregations that are involved in caring for those in need. make sure you’re telling stories in church and in services so people know. because the one thing that i’m convinced about is that the american people want to do the right thing. it’s hard to get good information unless you’re reading vox every day, which is hard to do.