If you learned of a disease that affected one out of four elderly veterans, an epidemic that caused significant harm, hospitalization costs, and often death, would you consider tha...
I think it's very important because, you may well have different typologies and different pathologies in rural areas tha...
Ultimately this is all about service to veterans.
We are turning away and losing veterans because of lack of staff. It is an enormous problem.
Why not empower the local managers, if they have a need give them a budget, they decide what they need, who they need, a...
We have to really think hard about all the steps, and here is one of them.
The differential in pay between different areas of the country, I think, is obsolete because people can work anywhere.
I believe that the whole idea of differential pay in different regions, based on cost of living, is somewhat obsolete.
We are in a learning mode here, so if there are suggestions, ideas, that is what we want to hear.
Clearly, that is something we need to do.
If this is a competitive marketplace, we are going to have to... we need to discuss, we need to talk about waivers.