Sen. Michael Bennet’s campaign turned up the heat Thursday on Republican Ken Buck’s statement that the private sector could operate hospitals better than the Department of Veterans Affairs.

Bennet’s camp has gotten high mileage from footage of Buck answering a question in June, where he responds, “Would a veterans administration hospital that is run by the private sector be better run than by the public sector? In my view, yes.”

The footage has made it to liberal host Keith Olbermann’s show on MSNBC, where the host named Buck one of his “worser” people in the world for the comments. Another MSNBC host, Ed Schultz, also picked up on the statement.

“We’ve never complained about the quality of care; we’ve only complained about the process,” said wheelchair-bound Vietnam veteran Artie Guerrero.

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