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Week to my private insurance company, what was i writing that for if it has anything to do with the va? government is not providing health care in obamacare. they may have set rules, agreed but they do not provide health care. government does provide it. >> that's not true. medicaid is expanding tremendously as a result of obamacare. medicaid is a government run program. obamacare can't have it both ways. they on the one hand say obamacare is spreading insurance to everybody but on the other hand they're including medicaid numbers in that part of obamacare. >> yeah, the government may not be r...

Department of veterans affairs. >> we hear a lot of about backlogs. we have a government run program on v.a. what happens with the backlog? how many veterans are in it and what are they looking at in terms of more complicated claims? >> you have got 700,000 pending claims, 400,000 backlogs. it's a little bit different than access to care but indicative of the types of waits and roadblocks you're going to see when you take something like v.a. care which is eight million veterans and try to scale it to an entire population, you're going to see those very same wait times and paper work backlogs. ...

Inaccurate? >> that's correct. >> and if you slit funds from pharmaceutical that would be inaccurate? >> that is correct. >> it was all recognized from the day that the president signed a bill there would never be enough government funding a and there would not be enough opportunity if this is only a government run program. so begin three years ago, business partners and hospitals. >> i'm more concerned names. i'm looking for a name. you said we. did you ever discuss with anyone at the white house? >> i have had discussions with people about enroll america, did i discuss that -- no, sir. >> ne...

>> i don't really see this as a big deal. financially it's not a big deal. so what you don't get mail on a saturday. what is so strange they are still delivering packages which is unfair to the workers. post offices are still going to be open and delivering packages just not first class mail. it's a little bit strange. president actually went after the post office in 2009 to prove that a government run program like the post office won't drive private competition out of business when he is talking about fed ex. that obamacare won't drive other private industries out of business. i would say oba...

Big deal. financially it's not a big deal. so what you don't get mail on a saturday. what is so strange they are still delivering packages which is unfair to the workers. post offices are still going to be open and delivering packages just not first class mail. it's a little bit strange. president actually went after the post office in 2009 to prove that a government run program like the post office won't drive private competition out of business when he is talking about fed ex. that obamacare won't drive other private industries out of business. i would say obamacare is the post office of hea...