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Hello. Welcome to the programme, were live until 11 this morning. Do get in touch on all the stories were talking about this morning use the Hashtag Victoria Live and if you text, you will be charged at the Standard Network rate. Our top story today. The Health Secretary, jeremy hunt, says its completely unacceptable that some patients are waiting up to 13 hours in a e. In an Exclusive Bbc interview, he paid tribute to the hard work of staff, but said the problems of high demand were not unique to the nhs in england. Our Health Editor hugh pym has more. Nhs england figures this winter show the...

Virginia. first, we sued the dea because we knew for a long time the derdea, the federal agency charged with fighting against the opioids we saw an ever increasing number of pills that were approved. we have gotten to dea supply numbers way down. then to your point, we also worked with the physician groups with the nursing groups and people across the board to look at alternatives to oopioids. the reason for that is most of the people on opioids, many of them didn't know this was actually not a going after the underlying disease state. it was masking the symptoms. i think the work is helping b...

A big part of the affordable care act that no one talks about is it work to actually improve care, health care. so it's not just about expanding coverage. it's also about ensuring that doctors treat patients to ensure the best outcome and don't just get incentivized to make their money from tests and procedures that actual care delivery has improved. democrats need to not seed that point because that's the most important part of the process. when people's care improves, costs go down by definition. that is why you see kaiser foundation want all of these groups. you line up who is for this bill...

This in individual districts. he's still going to do that. there had been talk he was going to go this weekend, instead it going to be vice president pence who is going to kentucky, a state, by the way, that has been very successfully integrating obamacare and now they are saying while he will go out on the road perhaps as early as next week that it may be he's going to doing more of these meetings, more of the one-on-ones, with members of the house, key interest groups. some of the key interest groups, aarp, hospital groups, nursing groups, all of whom can be influential on capitol hill. >> i...

Really get through. there are so many people who are against this the way it is written now adding yesterday to what were already doctors opposed to it and hospitals opposed to it, nursing groups, influential nursing group opposed as well and aarp which represents middle age and older americans, do not underestimate their power, telling them they will lose congress. that's before i get to congress and tom cotton who tweeted in three parts. let me read the first one, the most significant. house health care bill can't pass senate without major changes. to my friends in the house, pause, start ov...