My hope is, based on your experience and what I have read--and I am very supportive of seeing you as the next Secretary-...
I would be remiss if I did not first brag about my State and invite you to it.
We sought to reshape what we were doing in the VA, so now we have in Alaska 26 agreements with Tribes that deliver healt...
I would hope that you would be willing to consider looking at that.
Personally, I think what you need is competition.
Doesn't that seem like something we should be expanding and looking at around the country?
I believe this is a testament to the partnerships that our VA has established with Indian Health Services.
What is our wait time in Alaska in the Northwest Region? It is one of the lowest in the country.
It just aggravates me when people tell me it is suddenly a new-found problem.
We just need to get after it and deal with it, and it is going to take years to change it.
What we are doing in Alaska... we said, 'What are we doing?'
I have a bill which Senator Murray talked about, and that is reimbursements for doctors in the sense of serving our VA s...
This is not new. It is just they did not get the funding years ago, and now we are playing catch-up.
Is the money well deserved for our veterans? Absolutely.
We do not have the capacity to fill these.
And, you did not need new rules to do that?
The notion that employment should be tied to performance might seem elementary to most people, but this has not been hap...
The White House needs to have a more visible role in addressing the crisis.
