I just welcome your thoughts on that approach where we can sort of grow our own and use the skill set of veterans coming out of our military.

I think certainly other alternatives are going to be part of it, also I think education and expectations of patients is going to be an important aspect of beginning to change that.

this is a critically important report and certainly at the heart of what our role is

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So at the risk of sounding overly lawyerly, I want to follow the benefit, if I could, on behalf of the veterans and the taxpayers.

So I want to get at: Knowing that the practices of the delivery of medicine is dramatically changing...

Chairman Coffman, Ranking Member Kuster, and Members of the Subcommittee, this concludes my prepared statement.

The VA plays a vital role in our national health care delivery system.