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Position was to privatize the v.a., to essentially apolibolise v.a. it is the second largest agency in the government. it provides service to 20 million american veterans. and because the v.a. is essentially a single payer system, it is a conservative fantasy to kill it off. but the koch brothers picked it as a project and funded pete hegseth and his veterans group to make that radical policy position a mainstream option for republican politicians. a lot of republican candidates came out in support of privatizing the v.a., thanks in large part to intense lobbying by pete hegseth and his very w...

Serious. he is with a group called concerned veterans for america. they were funded lavishly by the koch brothers. it was to privatize the v.a., to essentially abolish the v.a. it is the second largest agency in the government. it provides service to 20 million american veterans. and because the vfrpts .a. is essentially a single payer system, it is a conservative fantasy to kill it off. but the koch brothers picked it as a project and funded pete hegseth and his veterans graoup to make that a mainstream option for republican politicians. a lot of republican candidates came out in support of p...

Countries, developed economies with similarly advanced health systems. when it comes to quality of care, the u.s. ranks fifth out of 11. britain is number one. when it comes to access to care, the u.s. is number nine. again, britain is number one. when it comes to health care equity, people receiving similar care regardless of income or geography, the u.s. is dead last among peer nations. sweden is number one. and this one is crucial, when it comes to healthy lives that people lead, the u.s. is again last on the list. france is number one. overall health care in the u.s. ranks last among its p...

That can be unraveled in the bill as well. >> trish: you have the repeal in, but not the replace parts, so it is going to be challenging, he may need to bring everybody together, i'm sure that everybody is going to want to weigh in on this. i have looked at it many different times, many different ways, congresswoman, there is not an easy fix for health care. i mean, if it was, somebody else would've figured it out by now. >> it is not, but here in the state of tennessee, we were doing it the right way. we had policies within our state, we had a single-payer system, we were the project here in ...

Control the political process. >> i want to play something your colleague said why they think so repeal is a good idea. >> you have pretty strong agreement among republicans that we don't like the individual mandate. and the reason is it's a tax cut on those who can afford it the leastment in oklahoma 81% that pay the individual mandate tax make less than $50,000 a year. this is a tax that was intended to push people to be able to buy the product, but it's actually larchtd on people that can afford it the least. doesn't take away the subsidies. individuals can still get subsidies, but we remov...