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Exactly what we have done. last year i signed the historic v.a. accountability legislation. meaning, you now can immediately get rid of people that don't treat our veterans right. that rob us or cheat us or aren't good to our great vets. you can get them out. you couldn't do this. for 40 years they have been trying to pass this. phil, you know this. 40 years. they couldn't. made so much sense. but it was hard. you have civil service, you have unions. of course, they would never do anything to stop anything. but they had a great deal of power. in the end they came along. everybody came along be...

Veterans but many va medical centers are earning poor ratings. and one of the worst, the veterans hospital in phoenix, arizona, the epicenter of national va crisis nearly three years ago. will carr has a closer look. reporter: four years after scandal rocked the va, president trump continues to pledge that care will improve for veterans. >> we've already made tremendous strides in delivering for our veterans including passage of long-awaited veterans, accountability legislation. reporter: in fact, the va's interbureau internal ratings show significant gains for many hospitals. in phoenix, cons...

Significant progress in improving health care for veterans but many va medical centers are earning poor ratings. and one of the worst, the veterans hospital in phoenix, arizona, the epicenter of national va crisis nearly three years ago. will carr has a closer look. reporter: four years after scandal rocked the va, president trump continues to pledge that care will improve for veterans. >> we've already made tremendous strides in delivering for our veterans including passage of long-awaited veterans, accountability legislation. reporter: in fact, the va's interbureau internal ratings show sign...

In the past six months we have signed historic v.a. accountability legislation. i have signed legislation to extend and improve the veterans choice program. we are starting to really get that to a point where choices just becoming something that they are extremely happy about and they have wanted it for many, many years. we are working to enable seamless care between the department of defense and care. we have launched a ground breaking new website that allows veterans to compare wait times and quality of care at v.a. facilities and the hospitals. we are able to compete our facilities with oth...

Exists among the states in terms of diagnosis and medication. i putting one of them up on the screen right now. think about it for a moment. by living in north carolina instead of california, the chances that a child would be diagnosed with adhd were 2 1/2 times higher. how come? >> well, we looked systematically a lot of factors. maybe it's demographics. there's more hispanics in california and they tend to be diagnosed at a lower rate traditionally. that doesn't explain too much of the difference. is it the number of doctors, that didn't explain much of the difference. when we got to school ...