americans deserve better than obamacare. and we can give them better than obamacare, mr. president, if members of the united states senate would decide that this was the wrong approach and decide to go in a different direction. i hope eventually they will come this that conclusion. mr. president, i yield the floor. mr. barrasso: mr. president? the presiding officer: the? er from wyoming. mr. barrasso: mr. president, thank you very much. i come to the floor today with huge concerns about the obama health care law, and i do it as a physician, as doctor who's taken care of families all around the state of wyoming for a couple of decades, as past president of our state's medical society, as someone committed to coordinated care, to give people low-cost screenings for health care around the state. those continue today. there's one in the small community of afton this very saturday two days from today. so the effort continues to actually make sure that people can get prevention, early recognition of problems, and actual care. the president's health care law hasn't done that. th

that is not a problem because of obamacare.to be fixed, and some states are going to go to a competitive regulatory method and some are going to go to a straight-out utility method when the costs come up, but that's to be expected. what the president did and what the congress did, is opened up the private sector to include everybody. there are countries that works, holland and switzerland, for example, and i think it can work. and it is working, and a lot of people are going to like it. by the time the election comes around, there are going to be an awful lot of americans who know someone who's benefitted from obamacare. >> so, the steam that the republicans had eight months ago about attacking obamacare, clearly, has reversed on them, and where does it leave them in the midterms coming up? what can they get out of obamacare between now and november? >> the republicans? >> yes. >> not a lot. in conservative states where people dislike obama intensely, it's a way of connecting obama with the democratic candidate, but the truth i

it's the first big test of obamacare. what about those that argument that now the flood gates will open and that what about companies who have religious objections, these closely held companies who have religious objections to providing coverage for same sex couples and that kind of thing? >> what justice alito said this decision was going to be narrow. it did not mean that employers have exemptions for all sorts of things. the governments interest could be much stronger in another case. the court did the right thing here. they look at this case very narrowly. they said the government loses here. on a different day, the government might win. we'll have to see if that case happens. >> thank you for talking with us. >> pamela, thanks very much. thank yous to you, lori. i got to take a break. i'll be back with much more after this. ♪ ♪ fill their bowl with the meaty tastes they're looking for, with friskies grillers. tender meaty pieces and crunchy bites. in delicious chicken, beef, turkey, and garden veggie flavors. friskie

>> let's take all of things he did on obamacare.congress wrote a law, what gives him the legal authority to rewrite in-law? >> because as the executive you have the authority and obligation to make sure laws work and they act responsibility. if you see a green light, it doesn't mean you cross the street. >> jessica and katie are here and welcome both of you. good to have you both here. >> morning. >> you look at the question and at the heart of this is the congressman is arguing that because he thinks they were poplar changes that that makes them okay. >> well, they are actually what is called by the supreme court benevolent suspensions. so there is difficulty in bringing this sort of lawsuit because we have cases down from 1997 from the supreme court saying there has to be a legal standing for the cases to be brought and that if there are things such as benevolent suspensions in terms of executive order it doesn't rise to the level with a lawsuit is warranted and that is what is happening here. talk about a fribilous -- frivolous -

, obamacare being the number one issue. it is a departure from what republicans were saying two months ago. >> are they backing off of going after the health care law? >> i think they are. republicans always pushed the repeal. what part of the problem is logistical and then you cannot repeal obamacare right now without replacing it because if you just repeal it, then you're going to be taking away benefits from people. that is not popular with the voters. the republican leaders are pushing their people to say we want to repeal this but we have to replace it or else we are going to face a huge backlash because we have taken these benefits. >> the epa ruled recently on the clean air act. does congress get to weigh in on this? i know the republicans are upset with what the administration did, but did they get to do something on this? >> there's going to be legislation and amendments that -- these rules and there was one rule in the waning days of the clinton administration that was a workplace safety rule. clinton finalized th

obamacare is not going to work. the v.a.scandal is a foreshadowing of what is coming for all of us. we have to get rid of obamacare. we have to get -- have portability. the ability for your insurance to follow you from one job to the next. i don't think insurance companies need to be forced to cover people with pre-existing conditions as that they did not have them. that is a distortion of free-market principles. we need tort reform. medical malpractice reform. senator graham, you voted against that. >> the last response. >> obamacare is a job destroyer. it a disaster. china, people are paying for health care. cash. they have adductor under the table cash. -- they have paid the doctor cash under the table. selling across state lines is a wonderful idea. the started with fdr when he had wage controls. this was a backdoor through the union. the employer started providing benefits. let's remember the genesis of this. the government got involved and created a problem. the solution is a single-payer system. i take issue with the

the problem with obamacare, people that need insurance is signing up.s a good thing, because people that need the insurance are getting what they need. the problem is for this to work you have to have people young and healthy who don't need the insurance to also sign up. so that's not happening. and now the entire model is thrown out. these guys never had to answer to a balance sheet or run a business. of course they screwed it up. >> part of the reason why the cbo says it can't figure it out because there have been so many changes, and waivers, and penalties thrown out and very hard to figure something out if you don't know exactly what the bottom line is. >> it's a big complicated -- a big complicated bill like social security was back in the day, and the cbo is kind of con founding. and i run a business myself, and cbo says it's going tpob a net profitability and could be job loss in techtion to it, and some parts good and some bad, and i am not making up numbers, and -- this is about politics. this is the reason these numbers are being dipped. in a

obamacare isn't going to work. it's just a shadowing of what is coming for all of us along the obamacare going on. so we have to get rid of obamacare and we have to have portability and the ability for the insurance to follow you from one job to do next. i don't think insurance companies need to be forced to cover people with pre-existing conditions if they didn't have pre-existing conditions is a distortion of the free-market principles. i believe one thing that is important is we need tort reform. we need tort reform on the medical malpractice reform and you voted against that in 2004. >> you have the las had the laso this question. >> is a disaster, and we are -- if you look at china now people are paying for healthcare. we have to have responsible individuals for healthcare and this is selling across the state lines. this was when we had the controls and people couldn't havhave raises so this was a backdoor for the union and then they started providing benefits and all of the employers have to provide benefits

yes, it's obamacare. they're saying we don't want obamacare, which is the reason they don't want medicaid expansion. but i cannot believe and especially in the case with senator puckett, he has 20,000 people in his district without health care. >> let me go to ezra just briefly. how about the dollars and cents argument? >> it's huge. the medicaid expansion is an incredible deal for states. currently it's being funded by the federal government 100%. after the first three years it goes down to 90%. currently every state gets medicaid and they intend to get less than a 60% match. you're dealing with something here where any state that does not take it is just shoveling money to the federal government and getting nothing back. and that's why you've seen in republican states like ohio, like in florida you've seen republican governors in arizona working really hard to get -- to find some way to get their legislatures to take that medicaid expansion. what we're seeing in virginia state republican legislators are

>>> so, before the break you heard former hhs secretary kathleen sebelius blaming the obamacare woes on the right wing, but is this the real culprit? a new report saying that the obamacare subsidies are on track to cost billions this year, and comes as this number keeps exploding. john, the administration says that the subsidies are helping to bring the costs down for millions of people enrolled and what do you say? >> of course they are saying th that, and saying that the right wing somehow caused sebelius to go to canada to spend hundreds of billions and she could have hi hired a couple of guys in silicon valley who built things out of their garage. but you can't, surprise. and etch boehner who said that you can keep your health plan, and you can't. they say it is going to work, but it is not working, and right now it is paid for by subsidies and increased taxes which is opposite of what they said they would happen. >> and the subsidies are quite substantial, sascha? >> well, the reality is that all of us have subsidized health care, so if you are thinking of the $250 billion that

author of "obamacare: what's in it for me?"endell, let's start with the news about the 27 new insurance companies that are going to be joining the exchanges coming in off the sideline? what do you make of that news? >> well, it doesn't surprise me a bit because what happened, these big companies decided they did not want to participate at the very beginning. much of these were investor-owned companies and these investors don't really like a lot of risk and these big companied, united health care in particular, they're now jumping in because they see that there's plenty of opportunity there. and the government is also helping to mitigate some of the risk. so i think we're going to see during this coming, this next year, during the most open enrollment, a lot more choice and i think you will see premiums stabilizing and not increasing as much as the right wing said it would. >> so there's two ways you can view this news. one this is going to be good for consumer,s, more choice, more competition pushing down premiums. the other th

mcconnell's basic position is repeal obamacare but put the good stuff back in.ing to head. >> goldie, so both cantor and boehner on immigration i think we sort of saw a little bit of -- they know their audiences and they know they have to have two different messages but in the 21st century it is all one audience to some degree. >> it really is one audience. there used to be a day, to some extent it exists, i could go political audiences county to county and say different things to different audiences until people started following me with a camera. that kind of thing is happening today. it is almost jarring though to watch seasoned politicians -- and this happened, too, in the context of a single press conference, where they're so jammed up on some basic questions. i mean, look. if we revealed obamacare, we took back aca, that takes back everything good that just happened. kentucky -- the expansion of medicaid, all the things that people love about aca except the name obamacare comes out of kentucky. the same thing is true about comprehensive immigration why you

obamacare is the single worst piece of legislation to pass in the last 50 years. i was glad to see the supreme court agree. that coming from mitch mcconnell from kentucky, senator minority leader. i would imagine that's a line or a version ever a line we're going hear trotted out a great deal between now and november. >> absolutely. the republican base is going to be energized very much by this decision. they see it as a huge blow to obamacare, which several cycles after impasse is still a huge election issues. and huge issue for republicans at the polls. i would say that democrats, we're going to get some advantage out of it. the decision was definitely not a boom for pro-choice voters. democrats will fundraise the you know what out of this the next couple of weeks. >> both sides. won't both sides? >> both sides will. i have to say democrats usually in the past. they have become better on fundraising. it's good for online fundraising. something house democrats have become good at. both sides will fundraises but house democrats will get more. >> will it be smart f

obamacare is what prevents the successful implementation of obamacare. americans don't want it. they want real health reform, reforms that can lower costs increased choice and help the middle class. in my view this senate shouldn't be focusing on the new captain for the titanic. it should focus on steering away from the iceberg. as hhs secretary the nominee would oversee many important programs aimed at protecting public health promoting medical research and providing a safety net for seniors and working families. she would also be the chief operating officer of obamacare implementation. while it's doing incredible damage to middle-class amos in our country and her embrace of this disastrous was reason enough to oppose her confirmation. i will be voting against this nominee because i think we need to focus on repealing and replacing this loss not trying to do the impossible by pretending we can make it work. >> are there problems with the affordable care act? sure there are. we'll sylvia burwell promised to fix those? you'll provide great leadership. our lives intertwine in a st

thank you very much. >>> so the price tag keeps growing as the obamacare blame game keeps going. >> we were facing very daunting odds. we had right wing media, and the leadership in congress determined on the house side to stop this law at any cost. >> she's blaming obamacare's failures on critics. failures on critics. someone here says that we when folks think about what they get from alaska, failures on critics. someone here says that we they think salmon and energy. but the energy bp produces up here creates something else as well: jobs all over america. engineering and innovation jobs. advanced safety systems & technology. shipping and manufacturing. across the united states, bp supports more than a quarter million jobs. when we set up operation in one part of the country, people in other parts go to work. that's not a coincidence. it's one more part of our commitment to america. [ male announcer ] it's one of the most amazing things we build and it doesn't even fly. we build it in classrooms and exhibit halls, mentoring tomorrow's innovators. we build it raising roofs, preserving

the middle class is being plummeted by obamacare. a recent study showed that an average 27-year-old kentuckian from taylor county, saw his premiums skyrocket by almost 60% this year. constituents like him are looking to washington for leadership and for solutions, but senate democrats won't even allow sensible bipartisan solutions to come to a vote. instead, we just get more politics. like the legislation we hear may be coming up later this week, a tactic designed by the democratic campaign committee to make americans forget -- forget -- that democrats voted to raid medicare -- voted to raid medicare by $700 billion to fund new obamacare spending. every democrat in the senate on christmas eve 2009, without exception, voted to take $700 billion out of medicare to help fund obamacare. senate democrats are actually trying to distract from their votes to raid medicare by making it even harder to save and strengthen medicare. but americans won't forget that the sponsors of the proposal were the very same people who voted to raid medicare

on the other hand, we've seen how well the obamacare website works.his may be one way of kind of disguising that fact. do you agree? >> yes. because it will mean that fewer people will go on the website even if it is to their advantage. and that means they won't have the same problems as with websites crashing as they did before. what they need to do is allow more low-cost plans on the health care exchanges so that people have a choice of more low-cost plans such as just insurance for major events rather than prepaid routine care. gerri: well, that is exactly the opposite direction they're going in with obamacare. they don't want to do that. makes sense though, diana. thanks for coming on. have a great weekend. >> great to be with you. gerri: up next it is the food craze at moment. now a new lawsuit says the makers are lying. lying to consumers. we're on the case. >>> and it is camping season. we're going camping in style. take a look, ah, is she cute? stay with us i'm a teacher. let me tell you what i make... i make learning a privilege. not a chore.

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. >>> right now, the supreme court strikes a blow to obamacare. ruling that some companies don't have to pay for contraception for their employees. does this pave the way for more challenges to the health care law? also right now, president obama is getting ready to announce his choice to fix the va. is the man behind duracell batteries and tide detergent the right person for the job? and right now, north korea announces it will prosecute two american tourists, saying they committed, quote, hostile acts, raising new questions about what north korea hopes to gain from detaining me ining american cit. >>> hello, ijim sciutto, reporting from washington. wolf blitzer is off today. >>> the u.s. supreme court sides with a private company in a battle involving obamacare. contraceptive coverage and religious freedom. the court said that hobby lobby does not have to cover some forms of contraceptions for its employees. an attorney representing hobby lobby says it's a victory for religious freedom. >> this was an astounding opinion. a great decision by just

once again, in the -- under obamacare. once again, in the immediate future, we need to solve this problem with the failed state exchanges. we also need to keep our eyes focused on the long-term goal of repealing obamacare once and for all and replacing it with something that will actually work for the american people. i hope that as time wears on, more of my colleagues, particularly those on the other side of the aisle, will recognize that this is what we really need to do and have to do. like i said, madam president, i intend to vote today in favor of miss burwell's nomination to head h.h.s. i have helped that process to go smoothly. i want it to go smoothly. i believe she is a good choice for this job, and i -- i am hoping with all my heart that she will be that good choice that she has indicated she is and that i have deduced she is, but i still have a number of concerns about the direction the agency is having. during the course of her confirmation hearing, miss burwell made two very important commitments to me. the fi

out trying to destroy it by privatizing also the supreme court has finally made its decision on obamacare as a birth control mandate ruling as expected that it's ok for employers like hobby lobby to discriminate against their female employee needs so how is this ruling really as narrow as everyone says it is more on that in just a moment and given all the terrible decisions the supreme court has made in recent years present time we started talking about how to regulate it more on that side still it's. getting to know this as far as the supreme court is concerned we're still in the nineteenth century when it comes to women's rights you know five to four decision the supreme court today ruled that for profit corporations like abhi lobby to discriminate against their female. ploy by denying them birth control coverage as long as those corporations believe the doing so is part of the corporation's sincerely held religious beliefs according to the court closely held corporations like abi lobby are protected by a one nine hundred ninety three law called the religious freedom restoration act a l

and that will be the real threat to obamacare.haven't seen that yet. >> what is the nature of these discrepancies. >> well, for example, about half of whatm we've seen so far has o if you enroll and seek subsidy under obamacare it is based on how much money you expect to make. you estimate your income for 2014, the federal government then matches that against the last income that you had before 2014. well, things change, so if you estimate your income too low and you deserve more subsidy or if you estimated it too high and you have gotten more subsidy than you deserve that gets reconciled on your next tax return if not before. >> that just sounds so messy, john, getting the money back. let's say you did get money back, how does the government get the money back, or vice versa. >> well, when you fill out your tax subsidies the money you get under obamacare will be under one part of that form. so when they see what you filed and what you have earned it is part of figuring out the calculation on the tax you owe or how much tax you wi

gerri: a black eye somewhat for obamacare. >> sure. gerri: here is what justice samuel alito said in the case. the companies are closely held corporations and each controlled by members after single family and no one disputed sincerity of their religious beliefs. if the owners comply with the mandate they belief they will be facilitating abortions f they do not comply they will pay a very heavy price, $1.3 million per day or $475 million per year. doesn't this just bring into sharp relief the kinds of unexpected issues that would crop up with a passage of obamacare? the idea that the law was just not thought out? >> it was both not well-thought out but in some case there is was warning in advance. hobby lobby was not shy about saying we think this is a bad idea. we're going to sue if you do this, please tailor this in a way it doesn't capture us and allows to us exercise our beliefs. the administration ignored that. and now they have taken all this in court and lost yet again. there is black eye here, not just on unintended consequence

sharon says, yes, as long as they're not dumped into obamacare. william says, yes, privatize v.a. hospitals, the government has no business running them. and gene says, yes, get rid of the v.a. and the government will save money on bonuses. by the way, the government shouldn't be giving bonuses to anybody. and finally, jolene says, yes. and in addition, vets should be allowed all the benefits to which congress thinks it's entitled. that's it for us tonight. thanks for joining us. remember to friend me on facebook, follow me on $bandara thanks for watching everyone. huckabee starts right now. >> tonight on huckabee. it is not limited to a few va facilities and totally unacceptable. and with consider regret i accepted. >> are veterans better off now. jeff miller joins the governor tonight. and hillary clinton rips republicans saying they keep harping on benghazi for political gain. mike on the house responds. >> plus, many college campuses it is liberals trying to impress conservative

the major ruling by the court deals with the hobby lobby case and obamacare. lisa stark, tell us more about today's rulings. >> del, this is perhaps the most watched case of the year. it was a 5-4 ruling along ideologiideological lines. josh earnest says president obama believes this ruling jeopardizes women's health. >> that's why we've taken steps to ensure that no religious institution would have to pay or provide for contraceptive coverage. contributions for nonreligious organizations that object to contraception on religious grounds. deny their employees federally mandated benefits. >> reporter: now on the republican side they're calling this a victory for religious freedom and a defeat for what they say have the government overreach by the obama administration. now both sides in this case gathered on the steps of the court waiting to hear what the ruling would be. those in favor of the hobby lobby side, gave a cheer when they heard how the justices rule. the decision on hobby lobby and one other company, hobby lobby is a privately held chain of arts and

you so much and moving them into the private sector hospitals are becoming more like the dmv with obamacare and waiting lists there. that's an issue too. >> well, we want choices. as americans, we want choices and no americans deserve that more than the vets, right? >> yeah, well any time you empower the buyer with choice, you're going to get a better health care and better health care outcome but if we love the veterans and we do, why would we have ever voiced it upon them, the substandard doctors and administrators that will be in a nonmarket program like the va. we should have let them out long ago. >> we should have. but rick it was the idea that nobody can do it better than the government and that idea is proved false, right? >> well, i'm not sure it's quite that simple to be honest with you. i will see say this. maybe even in the long-term, absolutely in the short-term. we know there's a problem getting these people in. we can't just let them sit and wait the way we have been doing it. if nothing else we should create a voucher system that lets them get the care they need today. beyon

, the massachusetts version of obamacare, and they said, you cannot sign up for obamacare. he needed to have surgery for our o'connell, and they said because he was a veteran, he had to go to the v.a., and the v.a. could not schedule anything for him for a year. he cannot work. his hands are injured. he cannot work. and then i realized maybe one solution is just to allow vets to sign up for obamacare. why not? it is a bureaucratic question. why not temporarily take them out of that and allow them to sign up for the health care that all of us have available? what do you hope the takeaway will be for the soldiers that are in this film, "korengal," and for those that will see it? >> politically, i am pretty left wing, and i try to be very neutral in my work. i think the right wing in this country does not want to it knowledge the moral cost of the war. they just do not want it. it is an unpleasant conversation. i think the left wing does not really want to technology that the soldiers who fight fight absolutely voluntarily and that many of them missed the war and that that has

. >> reporter: one troubling impact was obamacare. josh earnest say that's a good thing. >> the growth in cost to our health care system was out stripping even regular inflation. that was having a terrible impact on our economy. >> reporter: but the numbers may also suggest the government misread the impact of obamacare. one estimate indicates people who signed on to the marketplace exchanges have twice the sisters health issues as those who kept their individual policies. and that suggests their premiums may rise next year. today's gdp revision was actually the third estimate of the first quarter's performance back in april. the commerce department said the economy grew a tenth of a point. the final figure 2.9% decline is about as bad a performance we've ever seen in a quarter outside of a recession. >> thank you. today's economic news did not seem to bother wall street. dow gained 49. s&p 500 was up 9.5. nasdaq finished ahead 29. let's talk more about the gdp number. fox business news anchor melissa francis is in new york. what does

and in the case of hobby lobby, religion, contraception, obamacare, hobby lobby wins. we'll discuss today's major decision, next here on cnn. i dbefore i dosearch any projects on my home. i love my contractor, and i am so thankful to angie's list for bringing us together. find out why more than two million members count on angie's list. angie's list -- reviews you can trust. >>> two family-owned firms who charge obamacare tramps their religion have earned the right from the nation's highest court not to provide insurance for certain forms of contraception. the green family and the hahns, men nights from pennsylvania and they have the most divisive case of the u.s. supreme court session. the court's five conservatives came together on this one and ruled that obamacare violates federal religious law as it applies to the so-called closely held companies. however, in a scathing dissent, ruth bader ginsburg warned the ruling opens the gates for all kinds of companies to seek all kinds of exemptions based upon claims of faith. shortly after the ruling, the white house did sa

the biggest involves obamacare.ess go too far in requiring the companies provide free contraception to the employees even though is violates the company's belief. >> you saw in the oral argument the court was skeptical of the government's claim the federal law and constitution doesn't allow for profit businesses to be protected in their religious freedom. you saw some of the liberal justices be very skeptical of that claim and conservatives on that point. >> they could let it stand for all groups and businesses beyond strictly religious organizations. it could also offer a narrow decision that only effects privately held companies. it could offer a sweeping decree that congress over party lines over stepped its bounds in creating the mandate. >> it will not violate any one's religious belief but no one has a right to discriminate against a woman because of her own beliefs. >> no business should be allowed to discriminate against women. >> the other big decision has to do with unions and whether they can compel nonme

decision day for obamacare's controversial birth control mandate. what both sides are saying ahead of today's big ruling. >>> plus he ran a company most people associate with household products, but will the former head of procter & gamble be able to clean up the mess at the department of veterans affairs? >>> and unresolved questions. what former president clinton thinks about efforts across the nation to legalize marijuana. this is "way too early." >>> good monday morning. i'm bill karins. welcome to "way too early," the show that never inhales. but if it's secondhand, is that really our fault? maybe. >>> let's begin in washington. a closely watched case of the supreme court involving women's right and the right to religious freedom. the justices are expected to rule on hobby lobby's challenge to the birth control mandate in obamacare. the arts and crafts chain says the mandate forces it to go against its christian beliefs by providing contraception to female employees or risk hefty fines. members of both parties are weighing in. >> the government

especially obamacare make it difficult. charles: i've said it before, i'm going to say it again, this is not about day trading, not countdown to the crash, the idea of successfully investing and building portfolio takes time and patience. we call it the real, real deal. i tell but this every night. beyond the headlines, we drill deep, look under the hoot and find the nuggets that can help you make money. let's do that right now. the first real, real deal. the dow closing up today passing a huge test after worst snegz some time, took away the rally swagger, a lot of the investors were worried about today being a disaster. tracy, what is the message in the markets? >> in case anyone was wondering no correlation between the s&p and the gdp. if anyone is losing sleep over that number there. i think what we're seeing is everyone is looking at the back half of the year, let's be done with the first half, the numbers are just noise now, charles. but down we just budge. charles: the bulls, and i've been a bull promising the second

obamacare. >> obamacare and a whole host of other issues that this administration could be responsiblee real sad part of it all is that the president has put in place policies at this stage of the game it's pretty evident that they have always been, the rhetoric has always been antibusiness, antisuccess but now regulations, the taxes and everything else have come home to roost. they are destroying the economy. the only reason we're doing as well as we're doing, and knock on wood, is because we already had this amazing economy in place. we're still at $16 trillion economy, but the idea that somehow raising minimum wage is the elixir is nuts. absolutely crazy. what the president is doing is saying to the public give me the right, help me become a lawless president, help me become an imperial president and bypass the system. he lost a lot of last week with the constitution, the supreme court. i hope this doesn't work even though we do have an income inequality problem. >> charles paip is -- charles payne is hosting for stuart varney today. thanks, charles. >> thank you, charles. coming up

sharon says, yes, as long as they're not dumped into obamacare.william says, yes, privatize v.a. hospitals, the government has no business running them. and gene says, yes, get rid of the v.a. and the government will save money on bonuses. by the way, the government shouldn't be giving bonuses to anybody. and finally, jolene says, yes. and in addition, vets should be allowed all the benefits to which congress thinks it's entitled. that's it for us tonight. thanks for joining us. remember to friend me on facebook, follow me on nobody told us to expect it... intercourse that's painful due to menopausal changes. the problem isn't likely to go away... ...on its own. so it's time we do something about it. and there's help. premarin vaginal cream. a prescription that does what no over-the-counter product was designed to do. it provides estrogens to help rebuild vaginal tissue and make intercourse more comfortable. premarin vaginal cream treats vaginal changes due to menopause and moderate-to-severe painful intercourse caused by these changes. don't use