Chris Murphy: “It takes hundreds of days for veterans simply to get qualified for the benefits once they return. I mean, of all the…”

“It takes hundreds of days for veterans simply to get qualified for the benefits once they return. I mean, of all the benefit programs that this government runs, it would seem that the veterans program would be the easiest to qualify people for, right? Because what is the qualification? You served in the military. You fought for this country. There is a record of it. It is not hard to find. And yet we have constructed so much bureaucracy and so much red tape. And I understand that a lot of the folks in the Department are trying to do a lot with not enough funding to do the job, but it is time that we cut through it because we shouldn't be talking about a system that is of inferior care or equal care to that of what you or I get or people in this community get. Our veterans' health care system should be the gold standard of care in this country. We should accept nothing less than the best that our health care system can offer.”