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Friday, this friday, the day after tomorrow, to finish those initial assessments. once those initial assessments are completed, the v.a. says it is going to reach out to the individual veterans who are on these wait lists. they're going to reach out up to three times to try to find them all. they're going to try to get those veterans an appointment. if they can't get them into a v.a. facility, if they say there's no appointment available at a v.a. facility, they're planning to help arrange an appointment at private practice and they're doing this immediately. so those there are the specifics o...

The huge base there. this is their hospital. the commander of that hospital was fired yesterday. and three top deputies were suspended after two patients who were only in their 20s died at that facility in the past week and a half, after seeking help at womack's emergency room. one was a 29-year-old woman, mother of three young children. she died after a very routine, low-risk surgery at the facility. she had a tubal ligation. most people call it having your tubes tied. it is a relatively simple, relatively low-risk operation, but this young mother, she had that operation and then she apparent...

And instead, what you had is people manipulating data, which is completely unacceptable. the other point that i would make, and i'm chairman of a subcommittee that deals with primary care, if you think we only have a problem in terms of waiting periods, within the v.a., you would not be right. we have tens of millions of people today in america who were not in the v.a., who cannot access primary health care. we have in cities all over america, very long waiting periods of time. and that is because we lack sufficient numbers of primary health care physicians and nurses, all over this country. a...

From the old facility in building 18. president obama today gave a major foreign policy address at west point at commencement there. it was heavy on the details about syria and somalia and the differences between his take on fighting terrorism and the old idea of a global war on terror all over the world. it was a serious, detailed foreign policy address. this was not soaring oratory president obama, this was multi-lateralism and international sanctions to stop russian aggression in ukraine president obama. this was a working speech. but the one sustained round of cheering and applause that th...

Within the next ten years alone. last point that i want to make. and again, i want to put this into context. you mentioned the tragedy that took place in the d.o.d. facility, where two people died recently. i don't know if you're aware of this, but there was a study that came out a year ago, just on that issue. for america as a whole. and what the study showed is that between, and no one refuted this, between 200 and 400,000 people a year, this is not within military hospitals or the v.a., are die rg from medical errors in our hospitals. what's my point? my point is that as a nation, we have s...