i can to prevent that. you are saying as of now there are not 50 votes to pass all this. you also talk about giving the states power back. a number of governors say they don t want this bill and are urging their senators not to say yes to it. ten governors, four republicans, say this is not the right idea. that s the number of states that say they should not have the power that the graham/cassidy bill is putting forward? each governor decides what they think is best. i would ask them to understand it first. i understand if you are one of those governors from those four states that get the money this is ten governors from ten states. i understand. many of those are a result of medicaid because the people who medicaid was designed for
different and really maybe not optimistic for either side. i don t know if either side can get support for the two proposals. when you look the a the proposals, the sanders bill is pretty far to the left. proposing a pricey, far reaching single payer system, more than a european system. elizabeth: it s all tax increases. when you ask people do they support a single payer system a small majority say yes, but when say there s a tax increase. elizabeth: and explain they d be getting bare bones coverage. there are nuances, he has support, only around 15 senators if i m not mistaken. it s more than in the past been 16 senators come out in support of it, but when you look the a the reality of the situation, neither democrat leaders in the house or support have endorsed it and pelosi said
few deeply traumatic stories that affect veterans across the country. my question, how much can one person do? how much political will do you think there is on both sides of the aisle to truly fix what s wrong here? the president listed a number of his nominees that have yet to be confirmed because republicans in congress are dragging their feet. those people could be all actors in helping resolve what is a massive crisis at the va. that new york times piece was referencing active duty military hospitals and bob mcdonald will oversee the veterans hospitals which is separate and larger. i will say, alex, and i agree with sam, where the rubber meets the road is the budgets. lelgts be clear, the military budget the va budget went from $90 billion a year to $154 billion. that s a 58% increase. now the bill is going to conference is about $35 billion
broken and still taken no action. today the president took swift action on his own within his executive power to do something about immigration. quite frankly, the congress has shown or at least house of representatives has shown it s not willing to. does embarrassment work. speaker boehner s office released this note after the president s address. in our conversation last week i told the president what i have been telling him for months, the american people and their elected officials don t trust him to enforce the law as written. until that changes, it s going to be difficult to make progress on this issue. what struck me about that is sort of how pathetic that excuse is in terms of not taking up the senate bill. well go ahead. what s so strange and disingenuous about that excuse, all of the reforms that would take place in the senator house version of immigration reform would take place after president obama is out of office.
more per year and that s the mccain/sanders bill, whether or not it will be emergency spending, i don t want to get into min ush sha because i don t want to put your viewers to sleep. there must be the follow through. last point, this is the defining moment right now on how we treat our returning veterans. when you have 22 veterans committing suicide every day and that number is getting larger, not smaller, something is wrong. that s why we need the democrats and republicans in congress to empower bob mcdonald and leadership to act and act now. sam, i guess i don t want to play the eternal possess mist here don t. i think of myself more of an optimist in the long run. this is the speech the president gave an hour after score rating republicans. it feels like impasse between the white house and opposition in congress is as pronounced has