Joining me is legendary television and real life doctor turned administrator for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.

My friend Mehmetaz, Doc, how are you?

Professor Rubin, good to see you. How have you been?

I'm doing all right. I have to say you look well. So obviously, whatever you people are doing over there,

are you testing things on yourself? What's going on? Well, mostly, I have to say it's because I have

just started the best job of my life. And I've had some pretty good jobs.

I love heart surgery.

It's very fulfilling.

Hosting the show was a blast, as you know,

because you're hosting one.

But the beautiful thing about CMS is,

CMS stands for Senate for Medicare Medicaid services.

So basically, we made the bills for the social safety net

around healthcare issues.

And when you're doing that, you're working

with the really smart people, mission aligned. Everyone wants to be in this space, whether they forget

it, sometimes they do or not. They came into this field because they think they can make

health care better for America. And they realize the scale of the challenge. And so when you get

up in the morning, you work your tail off with people that

really care deeply about these issues. I get to learn a lot about why the system is not functioning

better. And most importantly, I get to fix the biggest problems. So I want to get into some of the

problems and some of the solutions. But in some sense, relative to what you just said there,

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