We greatly appreciate Chairman Kirk's continued support and applaud his commitment fixing these issues at the VA.
Dedicated nurses and doctors reporting poor treatment of our vets should be heard and not silenced.
You have also shown me that it is possible for a Republican and a Democrat, who is also a union leader, that we can work together.
Could you estimate for the subcommittee how many patients' echocardiograms were in those boxes that were never read?
So we could say that those 800 whistleblowers are all protected, and the Inspector General does not even know who they are.
This important piece has been missing in other pending VA legislation but is one of the strongest aspects of Chairman Kirk's VA Patient Prot...
It is totally demoralizing for us to hear all of this about our own VA taking care of the best of the best.
You have gone through extensively the bonus program, which I have looked into, in which the Hines VA paid over $16 million in bonuses to emp...
So many of these veterans had no idea that they had severe medical heart issues because the VA never even bothered to read the echocardiogra...
We would not have a country without our veterans.
It is a pretty alarming rising there.