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On the recordJuly 12, 2016
In my final 2 minutes, let me ask you, Dr. Thompson, because you mentioned private sources, so we have just created the Choice card, we now have our veterans going out to private providers because of the issue of getting an appointment timely, distance, all the things we know exist, and this has been going on in the VA system for a while, but we have expanded it by the Choice card, how is this going to be interoperable with private providers? You have no guarantee.
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Shelley Capito
Republican · West Virginia

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Senator Capito questions the interoperability of the VA system with private healthcare providers.

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