he spent his career in the private sector and government for two decades now, joint ahip -- joined ahip. let me introduce the two people that will be asking you questions. jayne o'donnell with usa today, health care reporter. and christopher rowland who was washington post business of health care reporter. christopher: there was a pretty interesting phenomenon where there was a poll like 66% of americans actually favor medicare for all. that is a pretty significant indictment of the current system. i wanted to figure out, from your perspective, what you think that the insurance companies have done wrong so far to lose that trust of the american people and what can you do to go about repairing that. matt: it is an interesting question. there is interesting data around medicare for all. it is not necessarily an indictment of health insurers per se. i think it is really a bigger reflection of our health care system and what we see with respect to affordability. i think medicare for all is very much sort of the analog toward repeal and replace. it is a great slogan, sounds simple, sounds ea

he spent his career in the private sector and government for two decades now, joint ahip -- joined ahip. let me introduce the two people that will be asking you questions. jayne o'donnell with usa today, health care reporter. and christopher rowland who was washington post business of health care reporter. matt: it is an interesting question. there is interesting data around medicare for all. it is not necessarily an indictment of health insurers per se. i think it is really a bigger reflection of our health care system and what we see with respect to affordability. i think medicare for all is very much sort of the analog toward repeal and replace. it is a great slogan, sounds simple, sounds easy, it is very, very complicated, and when you dig in to it, it is really talking about how the health care system has been challenging for a lot of people to navigate. it is too expensive, we obviously need to make things work better and focus on what is working, and how we make it better rather than trying to go the other way. but i think it is an important collection of sort of where we are rig

he spent his career in the private sector and government for two decades now, joint ahip -- joined ahipt me introduce the two people that will be asking you questions.

. >> do you think ahip and other medical insurance companies have done a good job backing up the aca? it has been criticized for many years now, and during all the turmoil of repeal and replace and it seems ahip was quite on that. matt: i don't think there is any organization actually that has tried to make the affordable care act work since it has been the law of the land. when you think about all the investments our member companies had to make to try and build a new individual market, to help states expand through the medicaid program, particularly through medicaid managed care. now not all the states have gone there, but the vast majority have. improvements to medicare advantage, the aca is not just about the individual mandate. obviously that is a big component, but it really touches the entire health care system. so we really have been out there, i think, actively trying to make it work for consumers, to make sure that everyone has access to coverage in that way. i take maybe a little bit of issue with the sense we haven't been supportive of it. we obviously believe it can be ma

you think ahi -- do you think ahip and other medical insurance companies have done a good job backinge aca? it has been criticized during all the turmoil of repeal and replace and it seems ahip was quite on that. matt: i don't think there is any organization that has tried to make the aca work since it has been the law of the land. when you think about all the investments our member companies had to make to try to build a new individual market, to help states expand through the medicaid program, particularly through medicaid managed care. not all the states have gone there, but the vast majority have. improvements to medicare advantage, the aca is not just about the individual mandate. that is a big component but it really touches the entire health care system. so we really have been out there, i think, actively trying to make it work for consumers, to make sure everybody has access to coverage. i take maybe a little bit of issue with the sense we haven't been supportive of it. we believe it can be made better. and we have specific proposals and ideas about how to make it better. i wo