"Do you think there are negative impacts that could happen on the VA with contracting services to hospitals?"
"Real quick--just kind of dovetailing off of Senator Burr's question--in areas that you are going to contract with local communities, how do you envision accuracy of medical records when the health car..."
"I think it is a brilliant program that helps get the National Guard members who need help in before their life spirals out of control and they reach for help."
"What about the highly rural areas? Are we doing anything different from rural areas as far as getting people into them?"
"If you have got a situation where the nearest mental health professional is several hours away... we have got a problem."
"I believe there is a greater opportunity for the VA to collaborate and support primary care settings in local communities."
"We need to ensure that the VA has access to, or can arrange, geographically-dispersed crisis beds to ensure that no veteran must be made to travel more than two or three hours to get to a safe place o..."
"The President's budget and its discretionary authority increases health care funding by $5 billion over last year's budget."
"I intend to reintroduce the Rural Veterans Health Improvement Act."
"I do not think we have a mental health professional east of Billings, Montana."
"The relationship as it stands is not working properly."