Is it fair to say that to the degree that we strengthen the VA, we become less dependent on expensive contract care? Is that a fair statemen...
Well, Mr. Acting Secretary, thank you very much for not dealing with niceties, for dealing with realities.
The VA has got to be accountable. It has got to be efficient.
I am confident that my colleagues on the Conference Committee will also put their differences aside.
Ensuring timely access to high-quality mental health care is critical for our veterans and their loved ones.
I trust that every Member of this Committee understands that we have an immediate crisis, that we have hundreds of thousands of veterans on ...
Millions of veterans are counting on us to do so. We can't afford to make them wait any longer for the care and services they have earned an...
The issues that Senator Begich is raising are very important, and that has to do with how we not raid other facilities and steal doctors and...
Last week despite a very partisan environment here in Congress, 93 Senators put their differences aside to vote in favor of a significant pi...
We want to hear from Mr. Gibson in terms of what he is doing to address those many problems.
the veterans of this country, people who have suffered so much, deserve quality health care and they deserve it in a timely manner.
I want to thank you very much for stepping in, clearly unexpectedly, into a very important position in a very difficult moment in the histor...
The lenses I will always view the VA through is in the examining room, patient to doctor.
I do not know whether you can change the VA or not. I do not know whether it can be done or not.
I choose to go to the private sector because I can afford to and there are other needy veterans who cannot.
I think that makes a lot of sense. I think one of the things that will help the VA get better is competition.
And one of the things we did, I think, in the bill is extremely important, is to take the victims, not make them criminals, but make them vi...
I had no idea it was as large as it was.
