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To block grant money to the states and provide a lot more authority to the states to determine how they provide healthcare. this somehow the senator described his plan. take a listen. >> instead of trying to redo obamacare in washington, why don't you turn to the governors, who have done a great job doing a lot of things, including healthcare, and take all the money you would spend in washington on healthcare, block grant it back to the states and let them design healthcare systems closer to your family. this would empower state choice. it would empower consumers. punish me in any way you thin...

Are talking about which is what most of these individuals -- >> i just want to follow-up because you have two questions about medicaid expansion and i know you are talking about people who don't have health care, but these people are concerned about those who did get it because of obamacare. you were talking about state choice and other issues, but your planned spending on medicaid would be 25% less in 10 years than undercurrent law. the question that was wrapped in both of these audience members's queries is how are you going to keep the money comingrom the federal government or from anywhere...

Because they're medically run as opposed to bureaucratically run. you can create an entity for vha that looks like that. that's not what it looks like now. a couple other things, it validates the need for real choice. real choice. not state choice and a choice card but give the veteran the option, the dollars follow veterans. it changes the entire way vha works. and then the third one is, this is a really important one, v.a.'s been saying for a long time that the care is really good inside. veterans really love the care. well six in ten at least veterans prefer treatment in private care than t...

First up, former florida governor jeb bush, son and brother of presidents 41 and 43, first two-time governor in sunshine state history, leading the state with an accomplished conservative record protecting gun rights and saving floridians $19 billion in taxes. he he vetoed over $2 billion in new spending while still managing to grow florida's economy by 4.4%. while support of state initiated common core standards have been criticized by some republicans, he touts the success it has had in his own state. listen. >> high standards, robust accountability, ending social promotion in third grade, r...

State choice political fires and volatile election year. back to you. >> william la jeunesse in phoenix. connecticut today became the 17th state to abolish the death penalty. the governor signed the bill into law calling it a moment for sober reflection, not celebration. the law only applies to future sentences. we're told 11 people on death row skill could face execution. including the two men convicted in a brutal home invasion back in 2007 police say the man raped and strangled petit's wife setting the house on fire. secretary of state announced that a measure to abolish the death penalty i...