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On the recordOctober 10, 1995
this legislation will basically help the VA medical centers bring the best quality of health care to our Nation's veterans by allowing flexibility in pay scale for VA nurse anesthetists. This will allow us to keep many of our finest nurse anesthetists in the VA hospitals. Without this legislation, there is a very real chance that many of these important people in our VA health care system might be pulled out of the public health care system and somewhere into private practice. If that were to happen, that would be a loss not only to our VA health care centers, but to the veterans that they serve. I urge passage of this legislation.
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John Bel Edwards
Democratic · Louisiana

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Discussing legislation to improve pay flexibility for VA nurse anesthetists to retain them in the VA health care system.

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