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Stuff, the average american sitting at their kitchen table deciding whether they can buy medicine, pay their mortgage, or go to the grocery store and get the food they need, they're going to be able to get that medicine much more cheaply and overwhelmingly american people want to cut the costs of prescription drugs, this measure does it through enabling medicare to do what the va does, what the department of defense does, negotiate for lower prices and that will affect the entire course of -- >> i want to bring one other issue that is in this bill -- >> i don't agree with that. >> go ahead. >>...

Prescribes for the treatment which is one of the most common and expensive diseases in the country. there is something fundamentally wrong with the way we are thinking about this. kudos to the president and the administration for making this an issue on the front burper for them, but the fact is that no one fixed this for a long time. what does a fix look like? >> a number of different things. we need to negotiate. medicare needs to negotiate for best price. the va does. the va, veteran's administration pays about 40% less because they negotiate on behalf of veterans. why doesn't medicare do t...

All of them failed veterans in the past. we're still looking at accountability and reforment within the va tlachlt is t. that's the top concern. we still care about not just the health care that needs to be dealt with within the va, but also other benefits like education benefits. there's a lot more the va does. it also manages the national cemetery administration. there is a lot more the va does for veterans for our care after our service and that's really where -- it's not just the trump administration. it's all administrations who love to have us there and love to use us as props but don't ...

Sense may be good. in some cases the va does have the edge on certain things. we should leave it there. at the end of the day, needs of the veteran should be what drives the leadership to go private or stick with the va. what i hear are self agendas or politicized agendas. and that concerns me from a narrative perspective. there were times as americans we knew better. we need to get back to the fact that we take care of our veterans first and do what's right by them. if it's privatization for one particular thing, we do it. one other thing i would say, brooke, this is not going to be a home ru...

Man so so deep? the veteran service organizations, the veterans groups who do a lot of great things but -- pete: they're invested in the way va does business currently so they resist giving veterans a true choice and they build up a fake argument that if you give a veteran a choice you'll privat ize the va and shut it all down. president trump has said that's deserved the best possible care either at a va facility or from a private physician and that's what the va is attemtpting to deliver, mostly democrats but some republicans including the chairman of the va committee in the senate are resis...