Behind The Scenes Of President Carter’s Interview

Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter joined Diane on March 26, 2014, to discuss why he believes bias against women is the world’s most serious unaddressed challenge.

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Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter said Wednesday he was disappointed in the Affordable Care Act — both “the way it was done and the complexity it assumed.”

The 39th president told Diane that, “instead of taking a leadership role from the White House and saying ‘this is what we think is best,'” the program was crafted by congressional committees, which yielded “the most complex system.”

What he would have preferred: The expansion of Medicare to include Americans of all ages.

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Excerpted from “A Call to Action” © 2014 by Jimmy Carter. Reprinted by permission of Simon & Schuster, Inc, NY. All rights reserved.