David Roe

I think you are going to see a lot more people, Dr. Petzel, come.

The Affordable Care Act was supposed to do that. And what happened was it has actually forced the cost way up.

The problem with the health care system in this country is, is it costs too much money. It is too expensive.

Somebody has to blink and that would be one of you.

I plan to be here in 2015, and to see if we complete these things that we are saying we are going to do.

I thank the Chairman. And thank you all, General Shinseki, for being here and all the veterans that are here today.

If you don't know where you are going you might end up someplace else.

We have 3 million jobs in this country that are available right now, 12 million unemployed people that haven't been educated.

We have 3.8 million ninth-graders in the country and only 230,000 of them choose a STEM degree in college.

If you look at Massachusetts, we were told that the number of ER visits were going to go down. They didn't. They went up. That's exactly where they end up. They end up in the emergency room for primary care, which is where they should not…

Is the bubble out there? And the number I read, 35 percent of students who are paying those, or loan recipients it says here, are paying those back are 90 days and above in arrears now.

You cannot go out and see young people--I see students graduate from graduate school and law school and medical school with $200,000, $250,000, $300,000 in debt.

The Research Advisory Committee on which I serve unanimously rejected VA's whitewash

Is the bubble out there? And what happens when it collapses to the taxpayers?

I see students graduate from graduate school and law school and medical school with $200,000, $250,000, $300,000 in debt.

I think it is one of the greatest challenges we face in America today are the student loans and the cost of college.

Today, I don't want to hear excuses. I want to hear solutions.

I am convinced that these problems are rooted at least partly in the issue we will discuss today - the persistent lack of staffing standards at VA medical facilities.

I say to the chairman, we appreciate the spirit in which he and Chairman Kline have approached this problem.

I can never think of a good reason why an ERISA trust should not be able to put money away for the retirement or health care of its members.

And we are not going to have a robust recovery if middle-class retirees aren't buying automobiles and refrigerators and taking their family to restaurants and do the things that people can do when they have a decent pension, decent income.

The facts they provide, however, are deeply troubling.

We are addressing difficult issues with no simple answers.

Armed with the facts, we must begin charting a new and better course.

I think there are certainly some areas that need to be improved upon; there are some areas that need to be tightened up;