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Stuff, the average american sitting at their kitchen table deciding whether they can buy medicine, pay their mortgage, or go to the grocery store and get the food they need, theyre going to be able to get that medicine much more cheaply and overwhelmingly american people want to cut the costs of prescription drugs, this measure does it through enabling medicare to do what the va does, what the department of defense does, negotiate for lower prices and that will affect the entire course of -- >> ...

Prescribes for the treatment which is one of the most common and expensive diseases in the country. there is something fundamentally wrong with the way we are thinking about this. kudos to the president and the administration for making this an issue on the front burper for them, but the fact is that no one fixed this for a long time. what does a fix look like? >> a number of different things. we need to negotiate. medicare needs to negotiate for best price. the va does. the va, veterans adminis...

All of them failed veterans in the past. were still looking at accountability and reforment within the va tlachlt is t. thats the top concern. we still care about not just the health care that needs to be dealt with within the va, but also other benefits like education benefits. theres a lot more the va does. it also manages the national cemetery administration. there is a lot more the va does for veterans for our care after our service and thats really where -- its not just the trump administra...

Sense may be good. in some cases the va does have the edge on certain things. we should leave it there. at the end of the day, needs of the veteran should be what drives the leadership to go private or stick with the va. what i hear are self agendas or politicized agendas. and that concerns me from a narrative perspective. there were times as americans we knew better. we need to get back to the fact that we take care of our veterans first and do whats right by them. if its privatization for one ...

Man so so deep? the veteran service organizations, the veterans groups who do a lot of great things but -- pete: theyre invested in the way va does business currently so they resist giving veterans a true choice and they build up a fake argument that if you give a veteran a choice youll privat ize the va and shut it all down. president trump has said thats deserved the best possible care either at a va facility or from a private physician and thats what the va is attemtpting to deliver, mostly d...

Partners who would offer additional therapeutic types of things, programs outside the va, and things like different activities, hunting, fishing, all kinds of different programs in conjunction with what the va does will help these veterans heal and become a more holistic. it allows also a very important thing, and right now veterans have to present whatever their maladeis within five years, and often symptoms dont present themselves within that time, and it allows a one-year period of time from ...

Reports that said one of the root causes, hundreds of vacancies to fill. what say you to that? >> that is a huge problem. its not just a problem for general medical care. we see this across the entire spectrum of care from physical to mental health. it is one of the major reasons that the va does have long wait times, but we cant tell that if medical center directors are lying to their patients. so before we start addressing the business concerns, we have to right the ship at the va and make sur...

Different recommendations. the va does have a lot of resources and talented people and a community for veterans. >> we hear about the wait times of six months, nine months, and even longer. and back in 2008, the transition team new about it and the president promised they would cut the wait times. why do you think that hasnt been done? >> i cannot see any excuse for that so i am not sure. some are coming back from iraq and afghanistan with treatments that need to be treated right away. they shou...

The huge increase trying to access the health care benefits. he enfranchised those people who had the benefits. his organizization was not capable of happenedling the load it has before that. hes a good guy but i dont believe that anyone who is running could do better even if you could get the senate to conpermanent anybody. we need to not conflate everything that the va does into one thing. my complaint is about the ability to deliver timely mode kal care to all veterans. my own experience is t...

Manufacturers. thats not the way to do medicare. >> senator brown, i do want to get more specific, though. in your state of ohio, youve got 76% of the voters saying they oppose cutting medicare in order to trim the deficit. again, even to trim the deficit, 76% oppose. so if the white house and the republicans come to a deal where they cut medicare further, would you be opposed to it? >> no. i dont lookic that. i dont think we have to cut a deal like that. i think we do the millionaire surtax, we...