Richard Blumenthal actually said...

"You would advise waiting until sometime this spring or later when there is feedback from the President and Congress before the VA finalizes its Choice Program?"

"Your issue about consumer rights, very important issue, very, very big in health care, and I would just very briefly say, the rest of health care, the private sector is dealing with this by no longer ..."

"What kinds of mechanisms will you put in place to assure that there is education of those patients?"

"Training our Nation's physicians is one of the premier public service functions of our VA system and it is a pillar of American medicine."