Richard Burr

On average, how many Canadian patients on a waiting list die each year? Do you know?

If the United States were to follow the price control model, what would happen to patients' access to innovative treatments here in America as well as overseas?

Well, one would believe the American people prefer their system because they know consciously they pay more.

It is a pretty fertile ground to market in.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman, and I thank my colleagues.

I think today's hearing represents an important admission that Obamacare is not working, that such an admission takes place within the very committee that the Act was written and is a huge step, and I commend the committee for taking it.

Our Nation will mark the fourth anniversary of the enactment of the Affordable Care Act, better known to most as Obamacare.

Outraged by that behavior.

I come to the floor as the ranking member of the Veterans' Affairs Committee as we consider S. 1982, the Sanders bill. I have been down to the floor several times, and I will not take up a lot of the Senate's valuable time right now. But I…

I thank my colleague from Illinois, and I should have told him I was going to come out to be recognized. Let me thank him because he has raised a very important issue on caregivers. I also want to thank him for the interest he took in Eric…

I came to the floor last week and for 45 minutes I pulled this file out of my desk. It was my notes that I talked about in 2009 about the Affordable Care Act before it became law. I talked about the increases that were projected in…

I hope you will focus on as to how we close the gap.

Do they contribute to the development of that national policy?

So, why are these piling up?

I think it may be a very dated perception by the Inspector General.

I think we are all in agreement with that.

I think the Committee has always tried to provide anything that they thought might make the system better.

Am I just misinterpreting the statement that? I understand the part about routing the claim the most appropriate place regardless of geographically where that is.

But you are actively involved in a weekly conversation on the phone and you are not hearing any of this?

My question earlier was, what participation did critical stakeholders have in the development of that national policy?

We will follow up with the IG to see the timeliness of what he reported in his testimony.

I would hate for this hearing to go on without us not reiterating that one more time.

Let me just be blunt.

You highlighted 97 percent quality or accuracy. I will use both words.

Were provisional decisions included in determining the number of claims VA is reporting it completed during 2013?