[inaudible conversations] good morning, everyone. The committee will come to order. I welcome our witnesses in person at those appearing distantly. We look forward to the testimony and getting a better understanding of where the department of Veterans Affairs and the thirdparty administrators are in administering the mission act. Also very interested in hearing more today about the caregivers implementation as well. Almost every member of our committee though not physically present at the moment, some are joining us in person and others will be joining us almost every member of the committee will be participating. The focus of todays hearing is the implementation of title i under the mission act by the department of Veterans Affairs, relating to the Veterans Community care program and the program of comprehensive assistance for family caregivers. Io i scheduled this hearing because of my dissatisfaction with the pace of mission implementation. While v. A. Officials were invited to part
Silicon valley tGlobal Health cares when nasdaq leading the way while the dow gains 83 points, s p up 6. 7 were here to cheer the most Economic System in history. Capitalism is taking the lumps like since the Great Depression and some is selfinflicted we have real problems with income inequality like the money that boeing was to pay dennis mulingberger can the new ceo change the companys trajectory or a Corporate Culture that seems to have gotten rotten and the ugly emails and it appears engineers deceived the federal regulators about the need for more Pilot Training to handle the maps but they did need training to handle the systems as the company made clear last week. Boeing is not putting capitalism best foot forward here undeniably so. Lets not throw the baby out with the bath water. And that stems from the everything i see happening here in San Francisco now we have a real windfall here this week jp morgan is hosting the Largest Health care con presence of the year and well explor
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