David Roe
The Public Record
David P. Roe is a former Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives, serving Vermont's 1st congressional district from January 4, 2005, to January 3, 2021. During his time in Congress, Roe was known for his focus on healthcare issues, particularly in relation to veterans and the military. He served on several committees, including the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs, where he advocated for improved services for veterans and their families.
I found this incredibly offensive to me as a physician and as an obstetrician.
I'd like to know what your recommendations are to put this on a more sustainable course.
I don't understand why 60 percent of the money went to the bureaucracy and $200 million of it actually went to get veterans in to see me as a doctor.
I talked to several veterans, and I would be delighted to let you talk to one of the Veterans Service Officers in Hawkins County, Tennessee, that cannot make sense of the Choice program to this day.
I think the Choice program, as I understand it, as we envisioned it, was to help get rid of the backlog.
I don't know where that information came from. It doesn't exist at our shop, I can tell you.
There is no way on this Earth that the primary care is 4 days and that mental health is 3 days and the specialty care is 5 days.
I think of a billion dollars that was wasted in Aurora that could have provided VA veterans healthcare.
I have been here 6 and a half years and we keep providing more and more and more and more money, and then we have the VA come back for more money.
I am sorry I had to leave. I had to go to the House floor to testify on a VA bill.
According to the GAO, the VBA has not provided a plan or a timeline for implementing the new verification system.
The new IT system--this is 2012. The new IT system is not scheduled to be operational until 2015, and it is still not operational.
I just had, not 6 weeks ago, one of the best friends I will ever have on this Earth, who was a Vietnam-era veteran, who died of a very rare lymphoma that very well may have been related to Agent Orange.
I am really, I am not sure, as I said here before, that I can vote to let the VA build another major project.
Thank you all for advocating for veterans, what you do every day of your life.
I would encourage us to have the same thing for the baby, that the first six weeks of care--exactly like the mother.
I think without you doing that we would never have known a lot of these things, and I think it'd still been going on.
You can't save enough money. I don't know if anybody ever said they have saved too much money.
Twenty-nine percent of people over 55 don't have any savings at all. That is frightening when you think about it.
I want to ensure that any written rule by the Department of Labor will make it easier for these investors to continue receiving high-quality retirement services from a trusted financial adviser, but this proposal fails them.
We need to, and I believe this, the day I started practice we had a pension plan for every employee that was in our practice.





