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>> wounded veterans returning from iraq and afghanistan have been living in appalling conditions and fighting a dysfunctional bureaucracy at the outpatient clinics of this nation's premiere military hospitals. >> the walter reed neglect scandal revealed that at least part of the veteran's health care system is outrageously underfunded and underperforming, failing to meet the basic standards of decency. president obama came into office with a promise to fix things at the v.a. and fix funding after a bush administration he said had ignored deplorable conditions at some v.a. hospitals and neglect...

Medicine" that found that facilities within this health care system exceeded fee for service medicare on all 11 different quality of care metrics they used to evaluate. that system was the v.a. system. and yet, just two years after longman published that piece came this. >> wounded veterans returning from iraq and afghanistan have been living in appalling conditions and fighting a dysfunctional bureaucracy at the outpatient clinics of this nation's premiere military hospitals. >> the walter reed neglect scandal revealed that at least part of the veteran's health care system is outrageously und...

Affordable care act, if they want to end medicare as we know it and convert it into a voucher program, if they want to slash medicaid and leave millions and millions of people out on the street without any health insurance, it's fair to say these guys are not great fans of public health. i think that's a fair statement. i would argue that in many ways, and according to many studies, despite its problems, v.a. today provides good quality health care in a cost-effective way. >> i would say to you, senator, i hope republicans either in the senate or the house have the courage or the convictions t...

Times or cooking the books, i will not stand for it. not as commander in chief, but also not as an american. none of us should. so if these allegations prove to be true, it is dishonorable, it is disgraceful, and i will not tolerate it, period. >> the president's strong words coming after a controversy driven by investigative reporting in the arizona republic and elsewhere last month, which appeared to show that not only was the department of medical affairs medical center in phoenix mired in a long backlog with sick veterans waiting a month, even a year to see a doctor, but there was a secret...

I think that's a fair statement. i would argue that in many ways, and according to many studies, despite its problems, v.a. today provides good quality health care in a cost-effective way. >> i would say to you, senator, i hope republicans either in the senate or the house have the courage or the convictions to introduce legislation to privatize the v.a. and we can see how the voters feel about that. senator bernie sanders, i know where you would be on that. thank you so much. >> thank you. coming up, 13 years after 9/11, we're still officially, legally a nation at war. who are we at war wit...