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Postal service. you have a secretary of education betsy devos who doesn't believe in public education. so nobody should be shocked that the va, the second largest agency in government, would be subject to privatization. that is what the struggle is about. >> what do you say to people who say the va is broken, these long wait lists. it's not functioning. give people access to protest care so they have choice and they can get seen immediately. what's wrong with that? >> first of all what, does bother me as the former chair of the va, i talk to a lot of veterans. i was just in the veterans medica...

>> "dateline" took hidden cam a cameras in the day programs to see for ourselves. we said we were looking for a program for someone with autism who is aging out. this is what we saw. at one, a group of adults gathered in a room doing very little. at another, people with special needs are working gluing strips of rubber to metal. a staff member tells us they spend most of their day in this room. >> 8:30 to 3:00. they have a break from 8:30. >> and outside the facility, there is barbed wire. the staff says it is for safety reasons. there are often huge wait lists to get into day habs. >> somebod...

Program for someone with autism who was aging out. this is what we saw, at one a group of adults gathered in a room doing very little. at another, people with special needs are working, gluing strips of rubber to metal. a staff member tells us they spend most of their day in this room. >> the hours are from 8:30 to 3:00. they have a break from 10:30 to 10:40 which is a coffee break. and then they have a lunch break from 12:30 to 1:00. >> reporter: and outside the facility there's barbed wire the staff says is there for safety reasons. and the thing is there are often huge wait lists to get int...

1 out of 5 stars which is the worst rating. >> about a dozen hospitals across the country that received 1 star ratings and those hospitals also received 1-star ratings last year, so they haven't really improved. that's a lot of va hospitals, taking together those hospitals likely served hundreds of thousands of patients every year, so it shows you that while you might have some improvement here and there, still there's a large amount of veterans that are trapped in the hospitals and there are still some systematic issues at the va despite some good progress that we have made this year. >> and ...

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