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Senate. you have the veterans choice program which is likely going to run out of money again by the end of the year, so hopefully we will have a bill by the end of the year, i'm confident that the house and senate are going to move something but we need to make sure it actually provides real choice and not just preserve the status quo where you continue to have the failing hospitals and veterans trapped there. >> is there anything on the veterans day that the american people can do to help? >> again, the american people and veterans specially need to make their choice heard in washington. you ...

Is -- >> that's a load question. i'm excited to have the rhetoric in there of let's take care of veterans, let's do this right. a little bit less defensive where the v.a. is, where it is in that. you know, for example, the veterans choice program, maybe the most loudly bragged about achievement, but really what are we doing there? we are paying the v.a. more money to pay someone else to do the job we are already paying them to do. if i take my veteran off and put my conservative hat on, my fiscal conservative heat on, this is a band-aid fix to a tourniquet problem. i look at it as just a campa...

Improve the veterans choice program, we are starting to really get that to a point where choices just becoming something that they are extremely happy about and they wanted it for many, many years. we are working to enable seamless care between the departments of defense and veteran affairs. we have launched a groundbreaking new website that allows veterans to compare wait times and quality of care at va facilities and other hospitals, so we are actually able to compete our facilities with other hospitals and other va facilities, so it will strike a little competitive advantage and get people ...

Accountability legislation. i have signed legislation to extend and improve the veterans choice program. we're starting to really get that to a point where choice is just becoming something that they are extremely happy about and they've wanted it for many, many years. we're working to enable seamless care between the department of defense and veterans affairs. we have launched a ground breaking new website that allows veterans to compare wait times and quality of care at va facilities and other hospitals. so we're actually able to compete our facilities with other hospitals and other va facil...

In the past six months we have signed historic v.a. accountability legislation. i have signed legislation to extend and improve the veterans choice program. we are starting to really get that to a point where choices just becoming something that they are extremely happy about and they have wanted it for many, many years. we are working to enable seamless care between the department of defense and care. we have launched a ground breaking new website that allows veterans to compare wait times and quality of care at v.a. facilities and the hospitals. we are able to compete our facilities with oth...