Ms. Tavenner, you are being asked to draw on years of extensive experience to lead this agency and administer programs u...
We know there is a better way to deliver health care and to lower costs.
Is it possible we could look at them as a Committee, because I hear a lot of requests for reports and quite frankly I do...
But I think the Department of Defense has a responsibility here to train people of what they are going into so that they...
Veteran suicide is a huge issue and an incredible worry and something we have got to improve.
we are seeing unacceptable levels quite frankly; and we do not do a good job as a society
The people that are under mental health care in the VA have a lower and declining suicide rate than those veterans who a...
we cannot help the people you do not have access to; and that is what I want to see
Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
If we knew how to treat mental illness in a way that was very, very effective in this country, this issue would not even...
I do not think this issue is going to be solved tomorrow. It is going to take some time but if we work at it and we work...
I think the folks that are working at the VA need to think outside the box and we do need to get more medical profession...
I just want to thank you all for your testimony. I have about 15 pages of questions.
It has only been 80 years. What the heck. Government works deliberately, I guess. That is code for slow.
To be able to enable that?
So you feel confident that the legislation is complete enough that the lines of responsibility are clear?
I certainly look forward to working with Senator Johanns and many of our witnesses today and others in getting this legi...
I think this is, by far, a very pro-consumer piece of legislation.
