"That was not the answer I was soliciting, but I appreciate the fact that you took extra--greater willingness to go another step to make a difference."
"This is about the veteran."
"What is the current capability?"
"Do disabled American veterans know about that program? Anything that you want to share with me or just I will use this as an opportunity to remind myself and the VA that pause has been going now for m..."
"There is no VA hospital, and it is hours to drive for almost every veteran to a VA hospital."
"I am often told, here is the policy. Senator Moran, we have got the policy that you want."
"for 10 years, we have been trying to figure out how we can get the Department of Veterans Affairs to provide health care in more locations by using community care."
"And are there other reasons? Perhaps you are suggesting that a provider within the VA would be reluctant to make the referral because the lack of communication between----"
"I want to hear what you had to say, but I also thought of another issue."
"My view is that CHOICE was implemented by the Department of Veterans Affairs in which it needed more, greater restrictions in our language to make sure that community care was actually provided."
"I would like to know if it, which is now operational--does it give you additional authorities, make it easier for a veteran to get nursing home in a community, or unchanged?"