leo shane's congressional report for military times. how does the agreement between bernie sanders and john mccain deal with the delays of the va health care sense them? be there a couple of different aspects to it. the most immediate would be to give veterans who are waiting and have difficulty accessing va health care a card and an option to go to private doctors who take medicare or tricare patience enough to get them out of the va system completely at least until these wait time issues are resolved. it's a $500 million in this bill to hire more doctors and nurses to address that wait time issue. there's also an accountability aspect. there are a few commissions to look at what the larger problem is and provisions to make it easier for the va secretary to fire administrators who are found falsifying records and covering up problems so all of that together they are hoping will adjust the core problem of veterans not being able to get in to see their doctors. >> host: the talk between bernie sanders and john mccain seemed to have been

wouldn't be out of the realm of possibilities see this move quickly through the senate. >> host: leo shane the militaries congressional correspondence for military times. read more at military times.com. thank you for joining us. >> guest: thank you. >> mr. president i believe every member of the senate and every american understands the very deep debt of gratitude that we owe to the men and women who have put their lives on the line to defend this country. that should not be a political issue. it should not be a partisan issue. i think all of us have been appalled by what we read about in phoenix and other locations about people manipulating data pretending that veterans were getting care in a timely manner when that was not the case. it is my strong belief that the chairman of the senate returns committee that every veteran in this committee is entitled to high-quality medical care and that they should get that care in a timely manner. i'm going to do everything i can to make that happen. we live as everybody knows in a politically divided country and a divided congress. reaching agreeme