If my information was accessible to the VA doctors when I first met them, rather than asking me about the surgeries I had...
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Coffman discusses the importance of accessible medical records for better veteran care.
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You have had very, very positive things and intuitive things that you have done for not only constituents in your district, but across the entire country.
I think from day 1, we made a terrible mistake, the prior administration and continued by this administration in not saying to both of these major players, the Department of Defense and the Department of Veterans Affairs, one of you is in…
It was very hard to get answers from the VA, because they didn't want to admit that they had made a mistake.
I think the notion that we're still at the point where neither DoD or VA has taken the lead--and I think that one of them has to have ownership for it.





