On the recordSeptember 5, 1996
I am not trying to fix on the past. I am not advocating that at all. I want efficiencies. But any plan that does not take into account the age and the illness, rural areas, that type of thing, I am sorry, that is not a good plan. Again, I point out that last night the Senator from Arizona modified his amendment. If you read the first page, what was modified and stricken out--it says this as it was first written: The Secretary of Veterans Affairs shall develop a plan for the allocation of health care resources in the Department of Veterans Affairs among the health care facilities of the department so as to ensure that veterans who have similar economic status and eligibility priority or medical conditions. . . . Guess what was stricken out? 'Or medical conditions.' That is what I am talking about. This amendment says wait a minute, you have to take into account medical conditions.
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