04/13/2010
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"The truth is that the VA is a medical home and not everybody that prescribes in the private sector is necessarily that patient's medical home."
"Are you confident that we have the sufficient focus on Phoenix for this Committee and for the VA to understand what, if anything, went wrong?"
"What do you see as the biggest impediment for VA making this transition?"
"My observation would be opiates are prescribed a lot of times because that is what the patient came in and asked for."