choice. you got it? the doctor of their choice. and don t have to wait and travel long distances for va care. the person president trump has tasked with changing the structure and culture is this doctor, a holdover from the obama administration. the task is like turning around an oil tanker, but he believes he can get it done. i do believe that working with congress in a bipartisan way and with the support of our president that we are going to do that. you re going to see some of these long-term problems be addressed in the next couple of months. while experts say the va is improving, there are still enormous institutional problems. the obama administration was reluctant to fire poor performance, but president trump is holding people accountable, recently replacing the director at the washington, d.c., hospital after a scathing inspector general s report. it is not only improving employees that shouldn t be working in the va, but it is making sure we can bring in the
task force here in congress, and our governor and our legislature passed really groundbreaking legislation that gives people six months of coverage for dealing with opioid issues. but that s out. that s out now at the federal level, the guarantee, from the federal bill. i know states can choose to do differently. again, is it a better bill in your mind without that in there now? i think you have to step back and look at the bigger picture. the essential health benefit doesn t apply to the vast majority of plans today. you re talking about less than 10% in the individual market that this essential health benefit is dictated by the federal government. it doesn t include any employer sponsored group plans or self insured plans. doesn t affect medicare or medicaid or va care or military tricare. the federal government is only dictating health benefits for a
and mental health professionals working at that hospital. the frustration for family members and law enforcement is due to medical privacy laws, nobody else has a right to really know what treatment he got and what his condition is or any details. parents are not allowed to know. siblings are not allowed to know. if he is 18 years old, he has the right to privacy and can take advantage of that. when he was released from the hospital, he was not judged mentally ill or was not convicted of a felony, and that weapon was his and he had a right to his property. veterans care, and the military s role here, because as his brother pointed out he did seek help from army and federal agencies. what rule did the military play here in trying to take care of a
the law. in this situation, he had not broke the law, and he hadn t crossed the law to indicate he had been truly radicalized and was going to attempt to do something as a terrorists act. they heard all the delusional statements he made and they did the right thing for their rules, and that was call the police and let the police deal with it, and the police have access to the mental health system, medical care, that he may have needed. so let the police do it. the police did it. they took him into custody and took his weapon into custody, and his baby was in the car, and they took care of the baby, and made sure it was taken to the girlfriend s house, the mother s house, and they put him in the hospital. he was there four days, as the brother mentioned, but the police have no authority to keep somebody in a hospital and to what extent the hospital wouldn t be able to keep him is up to their rules and their laws
would be repealed? i think it s a good chance we defeat that in the senate. really? you think you will be able to stop the repeal? there s at least a 50/50 chance. you start with a senate that is divided 52-48, and they need at least 50 votes plus a vice president, but there s a number of republicans who already said, alexander, and rand paul expressed this concern, and mccain has expressed this concern, and there are a lot of concerns saying what is this going to do to my constituents back home, and there are a number of states that voted for trump but have huge reliance on the medicaid expansion and the exchange to provide affordable health insurance. he talked about peace of mind and that s the difference. so many people don t have to worry about bankruptcy now, and they know if they get sick, they will have the care they need and that s something they didn t have a few years ago. let me talk about two other