03/02/2020
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"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."
"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"
"the use of quality metrics with regard to bringing down the pain surveys, bringing down the numbers, inadvertently incentivized physicians to push opiate medication"