Johnny Isakson

VA must do a better job to make sure that these therapies are available to all interested veterans.

The budget is literally a matter of life or death.

I share that concern, as I believe do many Americans.

This is a horrendous tragedy. It is a tough issue. We have got to address it.

I just wanted to be sure.

The fact that nearly 70 percent of claims are pending longer than 125 days is completely unacceptable.

I remain deeply disappointed that the White House included in their budget request the so-called chained CPI.

I was sworn in in February of 1999 to the U.S. House of Representatives, and, if I am correct, every year in December we had to, at the last minute, patch the SGR or physicians were going down the tubes on reimbursement.

I just to want to thank the distinguished Senator from New Hampshire for what she has done in supporting this, and I thank my other colleagues who are supporting it. This is an idea whose time has come. I urge every Member of the Senate…

I commend the movement away from that and the movement towards reimbursement based on quality.

I have had a personal experience with one of my children many years ago where they were recovering over an extensive period of time, and the home health care, from the standpoint of the mental health of the patient, is far superior to…

Quite frankly, Congress is guilty of the same type thing. We have far too many duplicative appropriations in different departments.

I think there are some people--some people; I am not speaking about you--who are driving people away from home health care and into hospitalization, which is less good for the patient's mental health and much more expensive in terms of…

Home health care, particularly for the elderly, but in long-term recovery, is a better environment and a less expensive environment for a patient to be healed in than a hospital is.

We need to find it and we need to implement it sooner rather than later.

But obviously, you do not think so.

There is no excuse in the age of Google and Facebook and Twitter to have three straight sessions of nothing but data entry.

My lightbulb went off too, particularly with the testimony of Mr. Wood talking about that sense of purpose.

I just want to thank all five of you for your testimony. It has been very illuminating hearing for all of us.

I think is terrific.

We need all the help we can get to not wait until the last minute like we did on the third-party fabric agreement.

On the transfer of medical records from DOD to the Veterans Administration, that is done electronically now?

Thank you, Mr. Chairman.

In Georgia, I will tell you claims is the number 1 challenge for my office, and I will continue to stay on this until it is done.

What software does VBMS run on?