Dan Benishek

We have more than simply a technical ability. We deal with these issues.

Congressman Benishek has added language to H.R. 1825 making that crystal clear.

Well, as a member of that rural economy, as a child, the people that would come up to the Upper Peninsula from the Detroit area and the big city, those guys would just love their opportunity to get to the woods and it was a real economic…

Nothing in this Act shall affect or modify management or use of units of the National Park System.

I don't see anybody disenrolling from VA. Why would anybody want to disenroll from the VA? I mean certainly not to get on Medicaid.

I think there needs to be some sort of an incentive program for producing a goal that you get or a disincentive program that if you do not make it.

I think my time has expired. Thank you very much, sir.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I want to thank the Chairman for holding this important hearing today, and I want to also thank Mr. Jim Iwanicki from my district in Northern Michigan for coming to Washington to tell us about the tremendous…

And again, the EPA put the animals and the environment in front of all the concerns of public safety and safety of our community.

I want to thank the Chairman for holding this important hearing today, and I want to also thank Mr. Jim Iwanicki from my district in Northern Michigan for coming to Washington to tell us about the tremendous obstacles he had in simply…

EPA over-reached their authority on this project in at least five different ways to kill County Road 595.

Republican Dan Benishek of the U.S. House; and both Democratic U.S. Senators, Carl Levin and Debbie Stabenow.

Today, I don't want to hear excuses. I want to hear solutions.

I am convinced that these problems are rooted at least partly in the issue we will discuss today - the persistent lack of staffing standards at VA medical facilities.

My goal as Chairman, in part, is: (1) to ensure that when a veteran accesses health care through VA, he or she is met with timely, consistent, high quality care and services and is unburdened by lengthy wait times or unnecessary travel…

I can see that where you are kind of diverting the answer, because telehealth is not going to be an answer for many of the problems that we are talking about.

Ten hours on a bus for a 20 minute specialty clinic appointment seems like not the best use of the veteran's time or VA's dollars.

My biggest concern is the fact that our veterans are suffering because there is inadequate staffing.

I have practiced in a rural VA hospital and I think Iron Mountain did it really well.

I don't like the fact that we don't have an answer. Apparently, right now, physicians are seeing patients slowly in one hospital and then maybe more effectively in another because of the staffing issues within their clinic.

On Wednesday, March 13, 2013, you testified before the Subcommittee on Health during an oversight hearing entitled, ``Meeting Patient Care Needs: Measuring the Value of VA Physician Staffing Standards.''

To keep the dollars we spend on VA health care close to the bedsides of our veteran patients - that is to say, to prioritize patient care above administrative costs and bureaucratic overhead that serve the Department more than it serves…

My goal as Chairman, in part, is: to ensure that when a veteran accesses health care through VA, he or she is met with timely, consistent, high quality care and services and is unburdened by lengthy wait times or unnecessary travel…

People have told me that I go to the VHA for my congestive heart failure and I see a different physician every time, that concerns me that that patient is not getting the best of care

I have made it a priority to continue these conversations with my veteran constituents and I can tell you that unfortunately their experiences at VA have not changed for the better.