Richard Blumenthal actually said...

Thanks for holding this hearing. I, too, very much welcome this profoundly significant discussion of health care issues.

And that the approach be, in effect, evidence-based and that it be consistent with patient safety?

I think that is the correct word of the failure of the two formularies, Department of Defense and Veterans Administration, to coordinate.

the legislative draft being worked on by Senators Hoeven and Blumenthal will ensure this to be the case.