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The Florida Senate, voting along party lines, gave its seal of approval to Dr. Joseph Ladapo as the state's 6th Surgeon General.

Should be able to in a sense get the opportunity to go out, have a private physician take care of you, but at the cost of the v.a., but i think it goes deeper than that. if you look at not only v.a. health care, but the backlog on disability determinations, there's something not working within the bureaucracy. >> secretary clinton went on to talk about some of her ideas, and the believe that the v.a. is unfunded, but since that answer, jeb bush, now lindsey graham, also senator mccain have cryized her as under playing the problems. since that interview and since that criticism. the clinton cam...

Such a problem because there have been a number of surveys of veterans and overall veterans who do get treated are satisfied with their treatment. >> much more so than people in the regular system. >> that's exactly right. now, nobody would believe that from the coverage that you see and the constant berating of the va that comes from republicans, in part in pursuit of this ideological agenda. >> but in part because there has been real scandal. >> there has been. but it's not been as widespread as it has been made out to be. i do think that some of the reforms that were adopted last year shoul...

Part of va's culture and it should be and it's not. and unfortunately the bill brought to the floor is not going to pass. and we're not going to do what we need to do, which is know the metrics of what we're doing today to make good decisions about what we do in the future? >> senator, what you've got are veterans who are caught in the middle of this -- >> no the veterans -- >> that's not true. >> okay. >> who is caught in the middle of this is the political dynamic of creating a vote that says you're against veterans when you know we're not offering the care and commitment to the people. we h...