Julia Brownley: “the Veterans Choice program presents a great opportunity to bring care closer to home through community providers”

I will say, though, that I, back in November, I visited the Los Angeles Regional Office and met with VBA employees there.

This year marks 50 years since our country stopped drafting citizens into service and began instituting an all- volunteer force. Unfortunately, today's military is facing significant recruitment challenges. That can be detrimental to the…

if you have seen one VA, you have seen one VA. Each medical center has a lot of autonomy.

It is just I feel as though we have given--this committee has given the VA a lot of tools and sometimes those tools are underutilized to get to the goals that we are trying to get to.