Well, my commitment to ensuring VA providers adhere to professional standards compelled me to introduce H.R. 4059.

But at the end of the day, we still have, as medical staff people, the patient's safety and quality of care is upmost.

I would make sure that every 150 plus those medical centers that checked that box and said we know how to do this, and are doing this.

I don't know why Mr. Williamson was ever needed to go out.

If people lose confidence in your hospital, they will quit coming there.

I will respectfully disagree with Mr. Williamson.

Quality of care has been an issue for years, long before there was a computer chip.

What we are concerned with is 'the death by a thousand cuts' whereby it can easily be stated that allowing large numbers of veterans into the private sector while not fixing long-term recruitment, hiring, and retainment for necessary…

ACOG enthusiastically endorses H.R. 3642 and we urge Committee to include this legislation in the broader VA health reform effort.

the notion of unfettered choice is a false choice.

Thank you very much, Mr. Butler.

We greatly appreciate your unwavering commitment to ensuring that Veterans receive the highest quality care.

We are concerned with not only the vagueness of some language, but that the discretion in implementing major portions are left up to the Secretary.

I urge the Committee to approve the Veterans Fair Debt Notice Act to promote accountability, consumer protection, and efficiencies in the VA system.

The uncertainty is important.

Current VA regulations provide that such debtors are notified by ordinary mail, which is deemed to provide a sufficient notification.

In my opinion, a veteran should not have to rely on a congressional caseworker to interpret the VA's bureaucratese.

H.R. 3705, the Veterans Fair Debt Notice Act, proposes a very straightforward solution.

I believe my bill offers a commonsense fix to frustrations that some veterans in my district have shared with me.

that uncertainty is clear and it's costing millions, if not billions of dollars to comply with this uncertainty

The mail spending figure we have, $355 million last year, is enormous.

Being in government space for a long time, in medicine, we billed Medicaid and Medicare. If we had been this sloppy in reporting to Medicaid and Medicare, I can promise you, you would be doing a perp walk somewhere.

VA should be able to do that. Most businesses can.

I find it hard to believe that all the mail VA sends is absolutely necessary, which is why I have worked on the RETIRE Act legislation to encourage electronic delivery of retirement data for ERISA employees.

One of the things we can do to stop the sharing economy and this growth, this incredible growth, is to regulate it to death.