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audio, the Axswiles. With your host, David Axelrod. We recently marked the anniversary of the passage of the Affordable Care Act, a law

that has made health coverage accessible for tens of millions of working Americans,

including people with pre-existing medical conditions.

One of the heroes of that story was Sister Simone Campbell, who mobilized a hearty group of nuns and other faith and community leaders,

whose vocal support was critical to the ACA's passage.

I recently sat down with Sister Simone at the University of Chicago's Institute of Politics

where she's currently a Pritzker Fellow to talk about her role in that important history and her very interesting life's journey.

Here's that conversation. Sister Simone, great to have you at the Institute of Politics, you're a fellow here

this winter and spring.

Right, that's true.

And we're so grateful to have you. So, some, you were, your birth name was Mary.

Ah, yes, that's true. You don't look enthused. No, I wasn't. But the, but you chose your

chosen name when you took your vows and joined the sisters of social work. I want to ask you about that in a second.

You chose the name Simone. Why?

Right. Well, I chose Simone for Simon Peter because I'm sort of like Simon Peter I have a tendency to jump out of

boats if you know the Christian story about you know oh there's Jesus oh leap go and

then get halfway out the boat and all of a sudden you're thinking oh my God I'm sinking I can be

impetuous but I also can be faithful and so I picked Simon Peter as my patron. Mary was just entirely too boring for a name for me.

So.

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