03/06/2018
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"the use of quality metrics with regard to bringing down the pain surveys, bringing down the numbers, inadvertently incentivized physicians to push opiate medication"
"this is a critically important report and certainly at the heart of what our role is"
"the good news is we did change it, by the way"
"Many times as I visit our veterans facilities it is the lower-income veterans who don't have access to private care, they don't have access to private insurance; this is their provider of choice."