“I think our personalities are actually pretty similar,” Johnson said. “Your voting record is quite liberal. You were with Nancy Pelosi and Keith Ellison over 90 percent of the time; I think it’s 94 percent. This suggestion that you’re one of the most bipartisan people there, the bar is pretty low.
“I would ask Jeff Johnson, would you have voted with Nancy Pelosi to improve veterans’ suicide care? Would have voted with Nancy Pelosi to improve the GI Bill? Would have voted on many of those things that all of you would agree with, this is what’s wrong with our system.”
“The only way to bring cost down, in the long run, is to understand what’s driving up the cost in the first place,” said Walz. “I challenge all of you to tell me what it cost to fix a broken arm. There’s no market, there’s no price transparency”“I’ll say it again I don’t necessarily care what this looks like, but the ‘payer’ piece of this is going to impact the results for the individuals getting the care and making sure we’re compensating that,” Tim Walz.
