I am deeply concerned about this. This has been a hidden problem coming home from our veterans for far too long.
I am shocked that this would happen at even one medical center. It is entirely unacceptable.
Good morning and welcome to today's hearing on how we can close the gaps in mental health care for our Nation's veterans.
We cannot leave this as a hidden problem or something we are looking at and report back a year from now.
I think it is important for us to get the VA up here.
I want to know immediately what is being done, immediately what is being done to make sure that this is not happening to anybody.
When you sit at the Federal level, when you sit at this dais, and you look out on the United States, and you try and figure out what should ...
It seems to me the problem is we are always coming in at the back end, looking at the problem.
Is there a place for nurse practitioners in that kind of a thing?
I have watched these hearings since 1970, when I was in the State legislature.
I agree with Mr. Blumenauer, we must find a bipartisan solution to this.
if the Affordable Care Act were repealed, as the majority is trying to do, it would require a 53 percent reduction in benefits or 134 percen...
In Senator Murray's home State of Washington, the DOD OCRP has funded five grants in the last 5 years to either the University of Washington...
So, the case load starts at two months----
Now you have moved up to this Federal level. Do we need a national standard that emulates Illinois or something similar?
Because we're about to make some of the same mistakes we made after the Vietnam war.
And this country will be paying for it 20 years from now.
I take this issue very seriously, and I've been trying to draw attention to some of the all too often unseen costs of war.
