VA long-term care services have somewhat flown under Congress's radar for far too long.
I wanted to drill down a little bit with you on this issue of institutional versus home or community-based services.
It is a matter of equity to have the post-9/11 men and women receive the caregiver services.
But some of the other programs that we have mentioned here today could be available to Veterans.
Veterans prefer to stay in their home generally, and I believe also that many of these in-home services or community-based services at the e...
So just in terms of we are using CLC, for the audience that is a Community Living Center which is like a nursing home...
We, the Committee Members, argued very strongly against this, that this would be a very dangerous road to travel.
I am curious to know what California's Department of Veteran Affairs does to look at the data...
I think that there is some agreement in terms of the VA of making sure that we do put out this information.
I would argue we need higher standards for our Veterans because their cases are complicated.
But the question is, do we have the appropriate number of Community Living Center beds across the country?