We are going to have to construct different types of facilities.
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I believe the future is going to involve several things when it comes to facilities.
I made the decision about 2 months ago to eliminate the Federal requirements on the States for building State nursing homes or State facilities with Federal money.
Florida, as you know, is one of our fastest-growing States in terms of veterans and retired veterans.
I believe this is going to help us improve morale. It is going to help us improve recruitment because people want to work alongside people that share their values.
We would like to go further this time and expand more and use that potentially so that those who train in the residency program would then enter the VA for a specified period of time to practice.
I think this changes it from what we have today, which is a system choice based on administrative rules 40 miles, 30 days.
The VA made the mistake, and this was our administrative error, and we are not going to seek recoupment of those funds from those 11 employees.
Senator Dole is an amazing person, and her foundation is doing amazing work.
Yes. We agree with you, Senator that the system was working well, and we want desperately to continue to have a system that works that way.
I feel comfortable with the President's budget, but you may be right and I may be wrong.
I actually think this budget is a good budget, and I will appreciate the support for modernizing our IT systems.
I do believe that this President's budget allows us to meet the mission of the VA.
I think that if we continue talking about and throwing budgets up that do not fully address the problems of our veterans in this country--and we have been at war now for 15 years--and we have got Vietnam vets that are getting older and you…
I urge Congress to support and fully fund our 2018 and 2019 AA budget requests.
I do not support any policy that will hurt veterans or their families.
It is not designed to privatize VA. It is designed to provide veterans the best care available in the most timely fashion.
We need your help to figure out the best solution about how to get more money into the Choice account.