gator out of the water after the attack. i say buy new golf balls. forget the golf balls. kelly: exactly, forget about it. texas senator ted cruz joining forces today with the advocacy group concerned veterans for america holding a town hall meeting in houston. the event is designed to discuss key issues impacting veterans and their families. we are live in houston with more. casey? among some of the issues we heard talked about today, long wait times at the va, patients falling through the cracks of the system, a lot of things discussed, but texas senator ted cruz hosted this event in houston today, along with the group as you said concerned veterans for america. you know, this was the final texas stop. cruz holding similar events this past week up in the dallas area, in austin, and down in mechanicalen near the border. mccallen near the border. these have been open to veterans and their family members to talk
choice o of the physicians you are able to see and extensively long wait times. in the united states people get upset because it can take up to 47 days to go and see a neurosurgeon. do you know in canada it can take up to 47 weeks to see a neurosurgeon. ainsley: too late for some people. not necessarily but you are right it can be a treatable injury or disease now all of a sudden not only do you have lost wages from being out of work and conditions make it worse. in addition to long wait times in the united states, we see these high technology, cancer centers, treatment centers popping up everywhere. we have access to the best technology. when you are rationing things, that s the first thing that s going to be cut by budgets. in canada, or in the united states, have you more mri and pet scans in say new york city or in these large cities than they do in the entire canadian provinces so all of the sudden what you are used to be being able to go and get mri. now you may wait to a year
last year the full magnitude of broader promise also came to light. long wait times, veterans denied care, some people inexcusably cooking the books. it was unacceptable and i made it clear i want those problems fixed. i went down to the phoenix va to see it for myself. bob gave you an update earlier. the va reached out to vets across the country to get them off those wait lists and in for care. bob is bringing energetic new leadership. he s working to hold people accountable and make sure the whistleblowers are protected instead of punished. with the new resources, the va
hospitals because we have to prevent anything like that from ever happening again. last year, of course, the full magnitude of broader problems also came to light. long wait times, veterans denied care, some people inexcusebly cooking the books. it was unacceptable. i made it clear i want those problems fixed. i brought in bob mcdonald and i went down to the phoenix v.a. to see and hear for myself. i know bob gave you an update earlier. the v.a. reached out to vets across the country to get them off those wait lists and in for care. bob is bringing energetic new leadership. he is working to hold people accountable and make sure whistle-blowers are protected instead of punished. [ applause ]
now we re being told there might be enough doctors to cover anybody. yeah, it s a problem. this is a problem with this health insurance co-op. they realize taking on these mid decade patients medicaid patients was actually losing them money. i think you re seeing ripple effects across the market, and i think when you asked that question of whether or not other co-ops will fall, i think we have to wait and see if the ripple effects will hit those states as well. eric: what happens if so many people go into obamacare and medicaid, and they just don t have the physicians to cover them all? what could the waits be like? what could the coverage be like? what could the medical care for our country be like if this s what we could face? i think we re talking about long lines, long wait times. there s a lot of specialists who were basically getting out of the market because they weren t getting paid enough by insurance companies. so a lot of sort of ob/gyns