carl cannon, did you poll on the issue of abortion at all? >> we didn't do that, and i don't have any special expertise on this. my heart goes out to the caller but we didn't go into that. >> the health care in other countries are way cheaper, more efficient, and the outcomes are better health wise. i think a lot of that we can adapt some of those systems with other international countries, and use that as a starting point. we don't have to reinvent health care. i think that we are just not having efficiencies because we don't want to adakt those practices simply to say that we're american and our system is better. we can make it more cost efficient. >> that brings up one of the questions you ask about. who will be improving the health care in this decade to come. >> americans are still optimistic. some of these countries have twice the tax rate we have. unless we do that we're probably not going to move to a system like that. i know that americans want better outcomes. so who do you trace to do it in the future? republicans. 30% of congressi

carl cannon, did you pull on the issue of abortion? guest: we did not do that.on't have any sex -- expertise on this. my heart goes out to the caller. teddy, in louisiana, a democrat. good morning. caller: i wanted to comment that the health care systems in other countries are way cheaper and more efficient, and the outcomes are better healthwise. i think we can adapt some of those systems and practices from other countries and use that as a starting point. we don't have to reinvent health care. i think we just don't have efficiencies because we don't want to adapt those practices, simply because we are american in our system is better. we can use that as a starting point to make health care more efficient, and make it more cost-efficient and health efficient with better outcomes. host: thank you for bringing up the topic, that was one of the questions you ask in your survey, about which industries or institutions would be the ones improving the quality of health care in the decades to to 3%in technology, six of respondents say it will improve -- 63 percent of r

and a new poll looking at voters' thoughts on health care with realclearpolitics' carl cannon. be sure to watch "washington journal" live at 7:00 a.m. eastern this morning. join the discussion. >> next, u.s. forest service chief vicki christiansen testifies on her 2020 budget request before a senate subcommittee where she faces cutsions about concerned and wildfire programs. this is about an hour and 15 minutes. >> good morning, everybody. the committee will come to order. i am pleased to to welcome chief vicki christiansen to testify today. i am also welcoming john rat, actingved as the director of company veggies, so thank you both for being with us here today. the budget request for forest is $5.14or fy 2020 billion. this request is millions less than the inactive latter, not including the $1.5 billion made caplable by the wildfire adjustment. including the wildfire cap adjustment brings the overall forest service total to $7.09 billion. fy 2020 marks the first year of availability for the wildfire cap adjustment. the cap adjustment will allow the forest service to address f

and a new poll looking at voters' thoughts on health care with realclearpolitics' carl cannon. be sure to watch "washington journal" live at 7:00 a.m. eastern this morning. join the discussion. >> next, u.s. forest service chief vicki christiansen testifies on her 2020 budget request before a senate subcommittee where she faces questions