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Alone had 85 million patient visits, 8 million different veterans, 8 million different veterans are in this system every year one year to the next. as senator kerrey said, its a very difficult system to manage. it gives overwhelmingly good care. it works in so many ways on some of the toughest injuries and illnesses out there from agent orange to spinal injuries, all that, so you need that expertise. but thats no excuse for general shinseki or no excuse for the administrators and the people that...

Its so nonpolitical, and let me just briefly explain that. it doesnt matter whether youre a republican, democrat, liberal, conservative, all of us want the very best care for our veterans, who volunteered to put themselves in harms way to defend our nation. some of whom are seeking care for injuries they suffered while defending the nation, and because it is so universal, the idea that this kind of lack of care and possible corruption, i think, in fact very likely corruption in the doctoring of ...

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I need the class to understand. i am not even kidding. arent there a lot of sweeds in -- swedes? >> that was actually the name of the group before they changed it to whose diversity was too many swedes. even the name confounds me. whose diversity is this? >> the group name shouldnt have a question mark. >> what is the or else here? if you are making demands there has to be an or else. >> the or else is they are going to call their parents and cry and tell them they should stop sending money to s...

Hasnt been done well enough, no questions there, no question about that. people that were part of this need to be accountable from whether its in phoenix or whether its in washington. i agree with all that. understand too, though, that in the last couple of years there have been more than a million new cases to the va, a million new people come into the system. the va just in the last year alone had 85 million patient visits, 8 million different veterans, 8 million different veterans are in this...

And he should allow incompetent doctors or administrators -- >> well, that is one executive order i would like to see sh, b we wont. >> and if ever calling for a simpson/bowles study, this is it. >> oh, i dont have a lot of time here. a lot of the soldiers and the veterans are killing themselves at the rate of 20 per day. we dont have time. >> and what do you do just throw the money -- >> well, you said shut down the v.a. >> well, you have to institut n institutionally change it. >> well, no, yo...

What doctors in the private sector are paid for doing in some cases much more challenging work. now, this comes back to us. it really does. >> it does. >> and here we are, ive been here for five years, and the constant mantra has been cut the budgets, cut the budgets, cut the budgets. guess what? >> yep. >> that has implications. >> and i do hope that congress stays on this after the storm passes. congressman jim himes. thank you. >> thank you, chris. >> i can understand the tweet length version...