I invited Mitt Romney and others back to the state to celebrate 20 years of universal health care. It was Romney. And to be clear, it was Romneycare. Romneycare, the precursor to Obamacare. Since then, Massachusetts has not only achieved the highest percentage of people covered by health care insurance of any state, we also have some of the best health outcomes. We're second in life expectancy, I think, and it's an example of why certain investments in policy matters. It's not perfect, by the way. We're dealing with exploding costs, but that's something we're working on. (34:13–34:27)
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