No other parish has that. I stood up to bobby gentle as a louisiana governor he did more harm than any other in the history of louisiana. I have been doing it all my life i a understand taking up for people. Boustany thanks for hosting this forum i want to urge your trust for the next United States senator as a surgeon had to earn the trust of my patients and as my career is over surgeon now head publicservice i urge your trust in the third Congressional District in with these endeavors with accountability. The real results not just talk but to solve problems ladies and gentlemen our country is facing serious challenges in and we have to be serious about these challenges the National Security is some risk. The economy is stalled. Our values are being questioned around the world. It is time to get serious about solving these problems and that is what i would bring to the United States senate. Or record of achievement and results ask for your support. 02 apply website youll find out more about me. Moderator now be will go to the panel for the next question. 300,000 Louisiana Residents have been rolled in medicaid to to expanded eligibility under the Affordable Care act. The budget relies on savings of federal funds financing coverage. What specific changes would you make, if any, to the aca to make sure no problems are created back complex . The Affordable Care act has been an abysmal failure. I would start over. Americans deserve a patient sundered Health Care Delivery system. This is what i would replace. We need more choice. We need more competition. We need more pay for performance not pay for value. We need to repeal the act of 1945 so we can buy Health Insurance across state lines. Made to block grant the money from medicaid to the states. We need to start charging a copay to those on medicaid who want to go to the emergency room to be treated for a fever blister. Ablebodied folks who are getting medicaid and Free Health Care there should be. I wanted Health Care Delivery system that looks like it was designed on purpose. Fayard Medicaid Expansion has been good for the vienna in addition to over 300,000 working people that have Health Care Coverage this saves the state money about over 1 million. But the state match was around 40 percent. It has fallen and will gradually raise over time that it is estimated this expansion numbers and with those economic drivers to make sure though working people in the b. C. And not bring those tax dollars home october is press Cancer Awareness month in at least 24 women have been diagnosed with Breast Cancer are now getting lifesaving treatment. We are literally saving lives to bring the tax dollars all. Campbell i have a son named peter to just move back and is a neurosurgeon. He went to lsu i said what to think of the Affordable Care act . He said let me tell you does more good than bad in the belief he is right. There is some things we need to fix for of first of all, attract younger people into the program to spread the risk, smallbusiness is having problems but if you repeal the affordable can act it will never be put back on the books again. I am not willing to do that. 300,000 have insurance and will not turn them out of the street to. If that brings in 50,000,008 year when we are broke we get money out of it is good for us and the economy and 300,000 people i will keep the Affordable Care act and the problems that come with it. Boustany the hallmark of my Quality Health care as a doctor is a doctor patient relationship you cannot reach highquality and bring the lowest cost without giving every patient into a meaningful doctor patient relationship that they trust. That is with the system fails even with the primary care physicians to do with what the government would ask the governor was to do with it stanched expansion. We have to keep our eye on the balmy want highQuality Health care to focus on quality, getting people to the doctor patient relationship to make sure everything is focused on true transparency of cost and quality can make good judgment calls on what is appropriate for them. We need competition and we need to put the family back in control. Not insurance bureaucrats or bureaucrats in washington but the Decision Makers and families. Thoughts that is what we would be proud of. Fleming as a physician who has covered people i can tell you that being there during the obamacare debate i warned everybody your cost will go up you will not be able to keep your doctor. You cannot keep your insurance. But yet we see today in has failed here is what i dont understand but the congressmen boustany says he agrees 80 m. Bailey he said like democrats a once to goal line by line to fix it. We cannot fix something that has a terrible foundation. Also to remind my democratic friends to repeal 700 million from medicare. Medicare is going broke. We need to move into the 21st century and with the patience to make sure they have the options to the patients and doctors. Not mandates from washington i never said allegre with 8 of obamacare. That is absolutely false. What i said we could find agreement talking in a bipartisan way. We have documented that he said that. You can run but you cannot hide. Moderator the next question comes from a usa today network. According to appaled conducted by Opinion Research more than half of those surveyed thinks the country should be somewhat or very involved in foreign affairs. We learned this past weekend that u. S. Is providing air and Ground Support to iraqi forces in the attempt to retake mosul from isis. Do support this action and will leave the United States has any obligation to be involved in a mobile complex . Fayard i do believe in the effort to take back mosul and support those trips on the ground. We are doing so. Mosul is important because it is a strategic city for oil and money and wait to destabilize isis. But whether the United States needs to be involved in foreign affairs, we are. The greatest country the world has ever known. They are coming to was with access to terrorism based in jihadist ideology so we have to be prepared and support our allies on the ground to make sure hour National Security stays strong and it increases airstrikes and supporting our allies in the abilities and other areas to promote. Campbell i do support that i am worried about russias power and what they are doing in the world today and iran and their influence in this area of the world. I am ready to help but i want to see our allies help themselves. I want to make sure we are over there with our response i dont want us to be the only one to police the work. Boustany america is an indispensable nation and be will have chaos. That is clear to me. We would not be going back to retake mosul from isis if we had a strategy of the past eight years. The Obama Administration has waffled and flips from crisis to crisis because there is no strategy to deal with the aftermath. We need a strategy. I started advocating this three years ago when i saw all of this. We need a safe zone between the turkish and iraqi border. To put a rubber boots on the ground and provide air cover and intelligence. We can consolidate a working coalition not on paper to rollback basis for global back the financial side also the economic side with those oil transactions. This administration has no strategy we need a senator who would stay as the complexity to provide input and guidance and leadership on the strategy for all fault Foreign Policy issues. Fleming serving in the military nobody on the stage has served in the military. Also on the House Armed Services committee. I need with fourstar generals privately all the time to talk about these problems. One of the things that concerns me is a disaster by john kerry and secretary of state. We have someone here tonight , a kennedy endorsed john kerry for president. That was his mentor so i hope that john has changed his view but he was a big supporter as a liberal democrat of john kerry. Weedy to distresses and i fully support that. I eight dont want to have the troops on the fork the frontline but they do need to be there in the support role with eyes on the battlefield. Kennedy when you are kick did the we are air usually means you are outside. I do support the american air strikes and mosul. We should go further and dolefully are none the pressure guts troops of the kurds to turn them loose. But with every International Affairs vietnamese along for respect us and our friends along her trust us because of president Obama Policies to know who else is responsible . The United States congress. Because they have sat there eight years and talked tough and they huff and puff and they do nothing about it. So as america as the strongest country in the history of the world we need to start acting like it. Followup . With boots on the ground not just there about what would it take in any foreign conflict to support that . Fayard it has to be a last resort of our most Precious Resource of american troops to send them into conflict without an exit strategy. I dont want to take any option off the table for what they may present but we do need to work can partnership with the occupant of the white house with this election cycle is over with the military intelligence to make the right decision. We need to support the troops that are on the ground to have airstrikes to have a full coalition of printers and the United States. Fees are 30second responses. Campbell i would have to consult with all military leaders cia and fbi to see if this is something that had to happen as it would be hard for me to commit our men and women on the ground and i would have to know 100 percent of the allies are willing to do the same. I have to know that. I am very concerned about that. Other people dont seem to help us as much as we help them and i will not commit our troops without that. Boustany understand the utility of force in what is appropriate and what is not. We have a clear objective. The n say and the means have to match up and there has to be a strategy. You cannot commit troops on the ground, american lives about a strategy that is clearcut and to be well thought out. In rome were to we had a Clear Strategy also make clear plan for the aftermath. That is what were going back into mosul to put american lives at risk again. That needs to stop. We need strategy. We already have been some ground, almost 5,000 american troops. The whole problem that is clearly outlined is president obama and jerked all of the troops out at the inappropriate time and as a result there was a vacuum so now we have isis. It is a big problem. The president has been quietly putting the troops back and that is fine but we have to continue to build to hopefully we can trade the iraqi troops and others but we have to provide support. We do have troops on the ground i am not sure we have 5,000 but troops are there. But it is primarily not our problem. The other problem is the only to groups that knowhow to fight are isis and indeed peshmerga trips. Where is saudi arabia . Egypt . Jordan . United arab emirates . It will help those who help themselves before i commit more trips i want to see those in the middle east for but it is their region they should put troops out. Moderator thank you see our debate tonight comes from the campus of Louisiana Tech lets see what the students have to say about issues that our important to them. As part of coverage for the upcoming election Louisiana Public broadcasting sat down with some students from Louisiana Tech to see what issues are of their mind. The group had a diverse list of concerns they hope the next senator will address as the mechanism borne our senators focused on to the next president will nominate for the Supreme Court. What is important to me is our veterans. I am a military veteran myself and the Mental Health a senator who focuses on making louisiana estate i hope to live than we have to figure out how to make education competitive this still affordable. Despite there very interest all shared a common desire for the louisiana next senator to work with members of the opposing party winded victor makes it to washington. They have to be open to compromise i feel that in the past, especially the past generation, left or right or black or white, about which young people we are very gray so somebody who is open to compromise. To stand for that but also what is best for the country or the state of louisiana. Moderator as we learned colonials will see issues said shades of gray but from Opinion Research 50 percent of those surveys they would rather they stand up for their position rather than compromise with others is then through legislative action but that package released for south louisiana nearly at the last moment due to washington dysfunction. Woody be the type to stick to your guns or work to compromise and what is your past experience to demonstrate that . Campbell thats a great question for awhile to compromise . Sometimes i am hard to compromise things that you believe you even. Sometimes the baby to hardheaded but i have been very successful as a politician. We are all politicians but did not want to talk about it i have experience. I have done great things for a parisienne up. In the legislature, foster was the governor was a republican and did not want to sue the Tobacco Companies but we did and i got money that went to every classroom in the breezy and up. You have to know how to compromise for i serve with david vitter he had very few friends in the United States senate. I dont want to do that i want to make friends and work with the people of louisiana like i work with the people. I know how to compromise and get things done i have been doing it for years. Regardless of who is president i believe you have to have results and that is my record of Public Service from Hurricane Katrina to work across the aisle i can get those done. Veterans clinics. I thought hard in their work very hard to get the veterans clinics for the veterans who are underserved. I had to take off my of leadership and the president but could get it done. I stick to the conservative principles. The latest episode was the flood relief edit almost fell apart of the very day we voted to get it done in my actions in that delegation would in a bipartisan way could salvage the deal at the very end to make sure it came to the floor and we got a flood relief. Have a record, dont compromise principles but i get results. Fleming i am always happy to compromise on pieces of legislation for the best of america but i would never compromise my values, the constitution or my principles. It is one paying to get things done and other to get the right things done and congressmen boustany did raise the debt limit and he voted for the bailouts and cash for clunkers for heaven sakes. Very few republicans voted for that. Get right and standup for america with a 20 trillion national debt. When Police Stopped compromising on that . We need to gather together as a next u. S. Senator that is exactly what i will do. Kennedy most of louisiana understands. I have been willing to stand up to politicians more powerful than me from both parties when i thought it was in the taxpayers interest. Having said that i am very proud of my record i convince the legislature to sell 60 and let me take that 1. 2 billion dollars to put into a trust fund. They did not spend 1 penny it is protected in the constitution. I convince the legislature in the vienna to allow me to use the Unclaimed Property Program to leverage pollens to help finish i 49 north to make a meaningful start on the south. I convince the legislature to allow me to invest in israel bonds. Wasnt easy had to explain what i was doing and the best investment that louisiana could ever make. I am very proud of my record i was in the legislature at the time we got the money for the Tobacco Settlement berger you did not vote on that you were not there berger you did not convince the legislature we voted. You had no vote. Dont tell these people that the u. S. Convinced legislature. You had no vote for you were the treasurer berger you might have suggested its or for its view did not vote for that because you dont have the votes. Dont say you put that money away i put the money away for the trust fund. Campbell you are wrong. With all due respect. We had a bill i dont even know if you bristol in the legislature to sell or securitized the Tobacco Settlement. We raised 1. 2 billion dollars. We convinced not one of the legislator to touch a penny to put into my trust fund for you voted but i convince them along with other really good people to allow us to sell that. It was said easy sell but what was tough to put all of the of money into the trust fund. Moderator gentlemen i imagine Fact Checking will be all over this one and right now we will go to ms. Fayard. Fayard i will let everybody else point bankers and claim credit but really it is about the flood package and if youre willing to compromise. I will make a pledge to all of those soliciting. I will put