Name one specific policy on the books right now that you believe is making Colorado less affordable and what you would do to remedy it.

You know, I have a thousand I, a thousand things come to mind on this one, but, um, I think the biggest one is, uh, that policy that's on the books is, uh, healthcare.

The, you know, the government's involvement and, um, the partnership between, uh, and it's not a good partnership, between the providers, the hospitals, the pharmaceutical industry and, and the in- health insurance industry, all of those together, uh, create a, uh, a bureaucracy that has not been good for, for patients.

It's not been good for the citizens.

Um, so this was really emphasized and really codified with the, uh, Affordable Care Act.

Um, and as I started looking into how would I address that as a United States senator, I discovered that United States Senator Rick Scott from Florida had already introduced a bill to address this very thing, and he introduced it just this past, uh, November.

So I visited with him recently and, um- He, uh, and I said, "Hey, help me get elected, and I will be another vote in your favor on this one." He calls his solution the More Affordable Care Act, and what it does, uh, generally is it puts market forces, um, back into, uh, healthcare by giving more choices to the patient, uh, so that they decide where they get their, their imaging and so on.

What is one thing you believe Colorado needs to do that may be difficult, unpopular, or expensive, but that you believe is necessary? And what role would your office play in moving that forward?

What special sauce do you have that will make you the next?

I'm gonna say two things.

One is, uh, a deep appreciation for good old US of A, the founding principles.

Another former lawmaker and congressman, uh, was Bob Schaefer.

You know, he's up from northern Colorado.

I inherited his desk on the state Senate floor when I moved over from the House to the Senate.

And, um, Bob says that the best training ground for Congress is, uh, the state legislature.

Yeah.

And what would you say differentiates you and John Hickenlooper?

So, you know, I'll say two things.

There's the obvious philosophical differences, which I'll expand on in a second.

But the other thing is that I am motivated to try to preserve the Republic and And John Hickenlooper has made it very evident that he, he is there to attack, um, to do, to just oppose in every sense, uh, Donald Trump.

He's just got an obsession, um, that he suffers TDS.

And that's every, every statement comes out of his mouth is just, um, an opposition to whatever it is that he can think of that reminds him of, uh, of Donald Trump.

So anyway, but the more general differentiator is that he sees government as the solution to problems.

But at least for me, looking in on this, that's what I see, Mark Baisley.

So what is the answer for that from an overall perspective?

Thanks, Sanjay.

You mentioned three different entities, and let's talk about them each.

So when it comes to government, I say nothing.

Stay the heck out of the way.

Government does not have a role in trying to architect commerce.

Government has a role in building infrastructure to facilitate commerce, like good roads and maybe access to areas for putting up broadband and towers and that sort of thing.

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