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Is working. listen, oi got you. the website didn't work as well as it should have. we had some hiccoups here and there, some folks lost their health care insurance, but folks are finally getting health care coverage. folks are finally getting a chance to go to the doctor and that, judge, is a beautiful thing. >> oh, so you're smoking it too. you go through colorado lately? >> i did not go through colorado lately. >> let me ask you this. people lost their health insurance, they can't see their doctors, we've had cancer patients with terminal illness who can't get to a doctor. you've seen the me...

Response to the trends had been lacking, to say the least. and then i went to all my friends, filing an oig complaint. they're supposed to keep your name confidential and usually they don't. so i figured if it wasn't going to be confidential, i might as well make a big enough complaint that it had a chance of making some chanss. i went to all my friends in every area of the hospital and pulled the most life threatening or serious issues for, to include in the complaint. >> well, we know that 22 veterans a day are committing suicide. so this is really a sense of urge ency when they can't see so...

Are private companies providing your insurance. that's what makes it work so well. that's why romney did it in massachusetts. >> stop with the romney thing. here's the thing, richard. once the government says, you cannot have your doctor, you cannot keep your insurance, i've got to pay for your mental health, i've got to pay for your transgender operation, i've got to pay for 12 million illegals, i have to pay for all this, how can it possibly not be something that is a disaster if we can't get doctors to work for the v.a., how can we possibly get doctors to cover everybody else? >> well, ther...

Do you believe that a government-run and funded health care facility can work? is privatization the answer to this? >> i think so. i really do. in so many regards. i asked the doctor before he resigned, i said do you think you could operate at medicare rates or 105% of medicare rates and be in the black and pay all your bills? he said yes. we negated that because we know how much more fishlt private practice is than the v.a. >> congressman, thank you so much. coming up, new details in the release of army sergeant bowe bergdahl. really... so our business can be on at&t's network for $175 doll...

Is working. listen, oi got you. the website didn't work as well as it should have. we had some hiccoups here and there, some folks lost their health care insurance, but folks are finally getting health care coverage. folks are finally getting a chance to go to the doctor and that, judge, is a beautiful thing. >> oh, so you're smoking it too. you go through colorado lately? >> i did not go through colorado lately. >> let me ask you this. people lost their health insurance, they can't see their doctors, we've had cancer patients with terminal illness who can't get to a doctor. you've seen the me...