05/08/2013
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"But we spend money on health care, to be sure, but we also spend a huge amount of money on the bureaucracy to determine whether somebody is eligible or not."
"I think I would hope that we could all agree that if we are spending a dollar on VA health care spend it on health care, not a bureaucracy to determine whether or not the veteran, in fact, was exposed..."
"The idea of a presumptive is to sweep in or lower the threshold of evidence in places where the science in the aggregate is strong but the science in the particular is difficult."
"At the end of the day--and I know not everybody in this room agrees with me--health care happens to be a human right for all Americans, in my view, and especially for people who put their lives on the..."