Why? Because every single one of those 13 times, we negotiated with Republicans to keep the government open. We still want to have those negotiations today. Democrats remain ready to get to work, to negotiate a bipartisan agreement, a truly bipartisan agreement to keep the government open. But we need to fix our health care system now. We need to stop premiums from going up dramatically. (02:55–03:04)
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