soil, that is good for growing food, but about the bad diet of poor people, or people can grow their own food and get together cooperatively and get support from programs that have been in place. we need to start realizing the wisdom for nutrition, lifestyle, and health, so that health care does not become crisis intervention and catastrophic as we need toch identify the pollutants in the environments that is giving people cancer, too. thank you, doctor. guest: that is absolutely correct, and that is really where the primary care physician comes in, repeated health care. if you had one more primary care doctor for every 10,000 people, you can save 160,000 lives in the country. that is not compared to what a

specialist can do. it really comes down to the primary care physicians. dr. helen ouyang is an emergency room doctor and "harper's magazine" contributor. we have been speaking above her piece for this week was the spotlight on magazines. time.you so much for coming up, we're taking your calls on this week's news. give us a call. democrats, call (202) 748-8000. republicans, call (202) 748-8001 . independents can reach us at (202) 748-8002. we are on twitter @cspanwj. and we are on facebook, on facebook.com/cspan. just a quick programming note', you can watch president trumps commissioning of the uss ford live in oracle, virginia on c-span and on c-span.org.

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truman gives her blessing. host: you can watch president trump's commissioning of the ford. you want to hear on c-span and on c-span.org. first one of the stories we did not get to this morning is about the senate health care bill. a senate parliamentarian dealt a major setback to the gop repeal bill. here is the story from "the hill." host: sanders the ranking member of the senate budget committee. the revisions that would likely be removed include all season order to conservatives, such as restrictions on expert being used for insurance is that cover

abortion. with the not sit well number of republicans come as you might imagine, including texas senator ted cruz. this from the "wall street journal." mr. cruz in an interview warns that the consequences of failing to deliver on the party for the signature health care -- or's signature health care promise could be "catastrophic." host: let's go to the phones. we have michelle investment patiently waiting in atlanta, georgia. she is a democrat. good morning. caller: good morning.

i would like to say i despise donald trump. i wish he would drop dead every day because he has declared that he wants to make negroes go away. he wants to make all other races go away. host: that is some strong language you are using, and what exactly are you referencing? guest: i am -- caller: i am referencing to the fraud. he wants to make sure that african americans are not allowed to vote in this country. african-americans -- i want all democrats and independents to stick together. this is no united states of america. this is the white states of america controlled by a thug in the white house, and i will be glad if they do is teach him. and if we cannot impeach him, we

because voodoo his ass i have got voodoo dolls. host: jamie is calling for michigan, a democrat. good morning. caller: good morning. thanks for taking my call. i have comments about republicans in the health care bill in general. they sent their making promises to their party to repeal it, but they do not try to correct anything. they gave the top 1% the reason. that is what we have to get rid of it. then they jumped on. up.remiums started to go they promised their base and everyone else that would vote for the republicans that they would lower your unions, they will refuse it. yes, they promised a repeal, but they promised to repeal with a better system. when you are going to throw 23 million off insurance because you will come up with some plan

does not make sense to me. so they basically, their promise is being misconstrued with the reason, like i said. a lot of people jumped on and voted because oh, this new plan is going to be lower rates, and that is not true. -- lower rates, better care, and that is not true. they have to make this promise to repeal, yes, but the problem to repeal and come up with something better, and they are not. thanks for taking my call. host: do you think republicans will pay a price, the midterm elections? caller: i have family members who voted for them because they were going to make insurance more affordable, and they are waiting in the wings and cannot believe some of these proposals. i think they will pay the price heavily. host: janice is commonly for

michigan, -- calling from michigan, a republican. caller: good morning. wow, that first lady who called, that black lady, wow. arean, no wonder we experiencing a drop in race relations since the civil rights movement, which i was a art of. setbackpeople, please, and put a curb on the hate speech. it is just out of hand. it is tearing our country apart. the news of the last week would have been great except for the media. they are hell-bent on having this russia hope be the main story. we want to tear down this president. please, give him a chance. i was not a fan of barack obama,

but i never, ever felt the way people feel about trump, the democrats feel about trumps. i never felt that way about barack obama. i did not hate him. this is our country. you people are tearing it apart. please stop. we are better than this. barack obama used to say, like in a loud whisper, we are better than this. we are better than this. please stop the hate. host: orville is calling from brooklyn, new york. he is a democrat. good morning, orville. caller: good morning, man. ceo talkingectrum about tv with the president in the white house saying he will acquire 20,000 workers. march, theater in union went on strike because the

ceo wanted to take away their pension and health-care. it is for months now, they are on strike. we need the ceo to do what it promise and not threaten workers. from hote is going springs, arkansas, an independent. good morning. caller: good morning. i have several comments. i remember, you use to build good to see a doctor within a month or now you call income and if they will even take you, they booked up we are all for a couple of months, we cannot see you." and i think it is because of the affordable care act and all the immigrants coming in and undocumented people. we are just saturated.

you cannot even get in. you really need to see someone, it is hard to see someone out. host: what kind of insurance do you have? i am talking about my daughter in law. we try to get her income and they told her, "we are booked up ," and she really needed to see a doctor. you know, it has just been really hard trying to get -- and she has insurance. at work. and you cannot get in. and that is kind of bothering me because i remember when, you know, they were conscientious, yeah, we will get you in and at , because ifeks there is really something wrong, you do not need to wait two months or a month and a half to get in. also, on the voter fraud, there is. i have read article after people getting

letters thanking them for voting for the first time. our uncle has been dead for years, and he voted for the first time? oh, ihen i heard people, " voted eight times -- i voted for michael, my aunt, my cousin, because they were not going to vote, and i voted for them." host: people told you that from hot springs? no, you can get on the internet. this was on a news telecast . and i am going, "how come she is not in jail for doing that?"that is voter fraud . i actually heard on the news vote, -- say, "go

on and vote, even if you are not documented, they are not going to look at it." he was encouraging people the last election to go vote because they probably will not check you. host: philly is calling from texas, a democrat. good morning, billy caller:. -- billy. caller: good morning. thank you all for taking my call. thank you for c-span. we need you. a hospital just closed. it was fought against by the locals who accused it of being favored to obamacare. thestate narrative, even if fact that america has a lack of doctors, we could train doctors like we train. hamburger flippers -- train hamburger flippers. if we can keep up prisons running successfully, we can run hospitals. we can train anyone with normal

intelligence and is not afraid of blood to be a doctor. what is going on with america, reaching out and training doctors so we can take you out to a rural hospital? it does not make sense in the world to not have appropriate doctor care in rural areas. , tould also like to mention to those who elected donald trump, it is basically fraudulent because how could you lose by three or 4 million votes and still be president?thanks for taking my call . how close is the nearest hospital? caller: we have one in palestine that most of our going to. it is about 20 miles. another town, huntsville. for real, good health care, you have got to go to houston or dallas, about 120 miles to houston about 140 miles to dallas. so it is a problem. but we can train doctors.

we have so many people who have the intelligence. just like when these to say black people could not play quarterback, but once you put them in there, you can train doctors. we have a lot of intelligent people who could become doctors in 7, 8 years with training. thank you for taking my call. host: now to florida where diane is commonly line republicans. good morning, diane. caller: good morning. they give for taking my call. a couple of things. charles made an important comments, which was part of the reason our health care gives going up his our doctors have to pay for trial liability putsance rates, and nobody on the table, especially, i am sorry, the democrats, to put on the table that we need tort attorneysthat these in tur cannot sue these doctors and get millions of dollars.

the previous caller was talking about how all the people become lawyers are doctors, the smartest become lawyers, and they are controlling the doctors. nobody is talking about for reform. that is to be put -- fo tort reform. that needs to be put on the table. members of congress -- those people have a different health plan fan the average citizen. what is that? that is upside down. we do not have an elitist society. we do not have a class system here. what is that about? that is pretty much all i have got right now. host: let's stay in florida and head over to stanford where we have george calling in on the end of the -- independent line. caller: good morning. thank you for taking my call, c-span, the home of professional journalism.

to follow up on what the previous caller stated so effectively, tort reform is critical, that was a bill actually passed under the radar in june because of preserving the access to health care act that was passed by party lines, , where not a single democrat voted for it, that tort reform, but as long as you have a majority of lawyers running congress and so few doctors in congress, you are going to have obstacles from these card-carrying members of the american bar association that are preserving the obstacles for tort reform. even ave medicine is greater cost than the liability insurance that doctors have to pay. has been medicine estimated in the hundreds of

billions of dollars of wasted -- where doctors order unnecessary tests because they have to protect themselves in court. the key to the solutions for health care are going to be getting a bill through the senate, as imperfect as it might be, in order to just -- the best history, tom in price, to check all the waste, fraud, and abuse and e -- obamacare only added 9 million people, not 33 million people. selena -- the cbo has to get their mastery. -- math street. -- so the math -- the cbo has to

get their math straight. exactly what the last caller said, very critical that tort reform is put into place in order to bring health care costs -- and everybody can be covered if those costs come down. host: kathy is calling in from george on the line for democrats. good morning. caller: good morning. thatt wanted to comment everyone keeps going on about the medical situation about people the uninsured and how it ,s the fault of the democrats there are not enough democrats in the congress to go ahead and do something about it. secondly, why do we even need a congress anymore when mr. trump seems to do whatever he wants to do? he has got almost his entire family on of their. why don't we simply do away with congress and get on with things because it certainly is not working the way it should be?

thank you very much for taking my call. host: to the question of the kind of health care that members of congress have them on the website snopes, looked at this issue. the question here -- do members of congress enjoy free health care? mixture of here is a yes and no. the bottom line is this -- members of commerce and other staff members are required by law to purchase health insurance through the exchanges offered by the affordable care act, however, the federal government subsidizes approximately 72% of the premium costs. further down, he says, "if the of oral care act is repealed, members of congress have a fallback plan to be able to return to the federal health care plan. 20 million other americans won't." let's go to sharon calling from ohio on the line for democrats. good morning. caller:. good morning. .

i have been a c-span listener, incher since it started back .979 thank you fo host: thank you for that. caller: i have watched this program turn into hatemongering. voter fraud -- i voted here for 31 years for at least 10 of those years, every time i walk poll am a theting people checking and try to sway me to republican, and i will fight them until the bitter end. around -- these old, ,ncient people look like relics trying to sway people. not many minorities. and they try, every time ago, they want me to vote republican. i say, "ma'am, i am not a republican, and i will not vote republican."

it took about seven times for me to commence one lady. vote, ime i go back to pray that she will be gone, and then she is gone, but there is another one. host: did you report this to anyone? caller: i reported it to the board. i let them know exactly what is happening. i do not know if they will do anything, but it is coming from the republican people working the polls. how will they account for the? are they going to hold them accountable? you filled timid going into their, use try to -- you feel timid going in there, looking at not belongu do there, my people were brought here, and we have every right to go to the polls. i want cap the denial she is 100% right when she said, earlier, the prior caller. we are falling for it while they are giving everything for their

benefit. donald trump has nobody in this country at heart. if obama did that, these people would have lost their proverbial minds. i thank you for letting me speak. i am so set up. host: we have marie on the line for independents. caller: good morning. i agree with the previous caller . but i'm calling about the tort reform that was brought up. mike's varies with with my son -- my experience with with my son. even though there was a mark against the doctor, he got terrible care, and i found out basically it is very hard to sue a doctor or hospital. they have all kinds of loopholes. because of the disease he had, he was on fluid restrictions, he it was a hot weekend,

restrictions,luid it was ok that the doctors just phoned it in to the icu, and two days later, he was dead. i think that is not really the problem with our medical system. i don't know, maybe other people have seen where they can sue them, whatever, but i found the opposite. the lawyers told me that even i have the case, because he did one thing wrong, there was no way that i could sue the hospital, even though they were neglectful the first day he was in it. host: marie, first of all, i am deeply sorry for your loss. tell us about your son. caller: my son was in an accident earlier in life where he had a brain injury, so he had emotional problems. he had to take steroids. the steroids, because we are predispositions in our family to

have diabetes, he developed diabetes from having to take the steroids. and the first day he was in the hospital, they treated him only for his disease, which causes low-sodium, and the more you drink, they can flesh out your sodium, and it was a hot weekend that weekend two years ago. so they knew he was not feeling right. they checked him and to treat the disease and ignored the problems he was having, the other symptoms that he was having. i pointed them out to the nurse, i called the doctor the first themand basically i told he was having symptoms he was never having before. they ignore that, said it was anxiety and that kind of stuff. basically, the only thing i could do was turn the whole situation over to the medical finding,re they had a but i still cannot get any compensation for his death. he was 28 years old. host: thank you for sharing your

story with us. let's go now to las vegas, nevada on the republican line. good morning. caller: good morning. clarifyof all want to the fact that people need to understand that we are all americans. my father came to this country in 1919 from arabia. however, i do not consider myself an arab-american but an american of arab dissent. escent. together as americans as our family father's day and stand up for the constitution and the declaration .f independence it is unfortunate that the man

of color that was brought here was enslaved, but this is not the first time men have enslaved other men. but we must come together as one .ation under god, indivisible we must come together. donald trump, barack obama, bill clinton -- they don't own this country. we own this country. host: bill calling from tennessee on the line for republicans. good morning, bill. caller: good morning. under the of formal care act, i have some friends who live here, i live in a rural area in the hills of tennessee. i have people near me who lived less than a quarter-mile away. they do not have insurance, they cannot afford the fine for not having insurance, and they have very little care when they go to the emergency room. it is a sad thing with this medical problem we have in the country here today.

i am sure that we could overcome this if democrats and republicans could get together and work out our true health care for america, and still they would run down party lines. and even though some democrats think it would be a good idea to change it, it would be -- they would be shunned if they voted against it. host: randy: from north carolina on the democratic line. randy, what is on your mind? caller: good morning. you are doing a good job. number one, voter fraud, there is no voter fraud. i would like you to get great palette on c-span if you can. palet on c-span if you can. the states that is not take the affordable care act money, i moved from new york to north carolina, and i went to the

dentist, and they do not take insurance. and i said no wonder you have people walking around looking like they have no teeth. greg palast on, and he will explain the voter fraud. host: we have a tweet -- "republican senators need to vote to repeal and replace. next, cap support and infrastructure. four tweets today from the president. frank is calling from tennessee on the line for independents. caller: they need somebody on there to talk about voter suppression and things that keep the american people from voting.

in regards to tort reform i wonder why they never talk about port reform forgotten many factors -- four gun gunfacturers -- reform for manufacturers. they talk about reform all the fix like it's supposed to health care and the lives of american people. have been waiting patiently for the republicans to invite them to the table to fix obamacare. obamacare can be fixed. but republicans refused to write invite democrats to the table to fix obamacare. health care should be a right for everybody.

there's countries all around the plans and have -- they can emulate or copy any of those plans. host: scott is calling from minnesota. republican. good morning, scott. caller: good morning. i have a few things to say real quick here -- i agree, everybody should have health care. button with the penalty -- i guess that's why i voted for donald trump. if you don't have obamacare, you still have to pay a penalty. shy's why a lot of people away from it. it would be like bringing your car to get it fixed and they don't fix it and say you still a me money. owet's -- say you still a

me money. host: denver, colorado. democratic line. we have david. what is on your mind this morning? caller: good morning. i want to talk about health care for a minute. my servedtell you close to 30 years in the air force, i had excellent health as a retiree, my health care is excellent. and i would include in that even the v.a. i believe health care is a right. i also believe health care is one of the things th just the that came from my service to this country.

i didn't serve this country to have a president say let obamacare fail. i did not serve this country to see 32 million people lose their access to insurance. fails the upcoming vote will also hope mcconnell be forced to realize that the republicans will not be able to keep their promise to repeal obamacare because you cannot take away an entitlement, particularly someone's health care. once these votes fail, it is my hope that mcconnell and the democrats can get together on fixing it. people don't like the individual mandate.

well, the senator from maine and louisiana talk about people being in medical insurance and then just have to opt out and if they opt out, there is a penalty. i like that proposal. , weeep obamacare in place work on fixes and the funny state insurance and tort reform, that has been talked about for years. they've never been able to carry that out. i really think those issues are nonstarters. let's improve access. cost-sharing have incentives that we need to make better. yes, america, the american

citizens believe health care is a right. host: illinois. independent. good morning, michael. caller: good morning. at a time is sad that when our country has somebody problems -- is a victim of the yesterday,enate -- the house and senate were debating a bill to keep credit card companies from being sued. our country is falling apart and they are worried about protecting more banks. this is the problem we have. every modern country in the world takes care of everybody at 7% of gdp, we are paying 18% gdp. how does that make sense? let's copy the taiwan policy. everybody gets better care than we do.

there's no problem over there. 20% of all children in florida live in daily motels. you don't hear anybody talking about that. there's tens of thousands of children who can't afford to live in our own country. groups of people swarming pc and taking over the capital and the white house. people are fed up. we've had enough. host: irving, texas. jacob is republican. good morning. caller: good morning. listen, obama life to get obamacare passed. he lied repeatedly looking into the camera at every american citizen. he lied directly to their face. without the lies he told, it wouldn't have passed. you want health care to be a right in america with the

constitution has to be amended. it is not currently a right. all these other callers talking about other countries around the world and how excellent their health care is -- one of the best things about america is you are free to leave anytime you want. host: greenville, north carolina. harry is on the phone. he is an independent. caller: first of all come i want to address the whole situation of saying health care is right -- welfare is not a right. the right is for everybody to go to work we have too many entitlements, too many people want free stuff. too many people think everybody owes them something. i am a veteran myself, a combat understandi don't

why everybody keeps thinking everything is supposed to be a right. i don't understand that. that's all i have to say. host: democrat calling from waterford, connecticut good morning. caller: i'm calling regarding the lady that called and said that everybody hates trump. people don't hate trump. they hate the liars because god said he hates the liar. if you hate a person that lies, that is not a sentiment that is sin, thathat is not is bible. jesus said you were not mind what you are from your father because he was a liar. host: paul is with us from ocala, florida. caller: good morning. now? talk host: yes. caller: here's the way i feel

. i voted for donald trump. i know he gets things done, but my honest opinion is worry about people in your country first. countriesver to other and say we will do trade and this and that -- worry about our people first. people on social security like your elderly -- it's been three years since we've had a raise. yet, the politicians in washington all give themselves raises. they have to worry about our country first. i responsibility to our people -- our responsibility to our people. stop promising things to other countries without turning around and looking at your problem you've got with your people in

your country. that is the way i feel. they are sending us letters to donate to donald trump's campaign. we are living on a fixed income now. a lot of these elderly people cannot go back to work no more. on top of it, they are worried about their insurance. yet, you have to travel to other say we will do this and we will try to reunite -- worry about your own country first. that's the way i look at it. host: that will do it for today's "washington journal." thank you for making the show a part of your saturday morning. we will be back here tomorrow at 7:00. stay with us. ♪

[captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2017] ♪ >> we are live in norfolk, virginia waiting for president donald trump to speak at the commissioning ceremony for the navy's newest aircraft carrier, the uss gerald r ford. the crowd waiting for the president, just seeing a video helicopterident's landing on the aircraft carrier. we expect the ceremony to get started shortly. we are expecting to hear from james mattis and