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It continues to be sluggish and i cannot give you a reason why that occurred. We are aware that mortgage credit is very tight for a wide range of borrowers and that maybe part of it. We hear about supply constraints builders are facing but i have to say i am surprised. What more do you think the fed can do to help stimulate recovery in the housing sector both for those homeowners who are upside down in the values and those to help new people qualify for homes. Housing prices are continuing to in...

Become central. The veteran needs to be seen today, we have failed that veteran. You are looking for different ways i think we will be looking at different ways to evaluate timeliness of care, a combination of patient satisfaction, veterans waiting too long and seeing that number coming down steadily. And then as we have the system could ability to do things like you see in the private sector, metrics like the third next available appointment which gives you some gauge of the capacity of the sys...

On the veterans we are here to serve. Fifth, the va has failed to hold people accountable. And last we lack physicians, space, staff, Information Technology and perchase care funding to meet the current demand for Timely Health care. Furthermore we dont have the capacity to quantify the staffing because we have not built resources from the bottom up. We have instead managed to a budget number. As a consequence of all of the failures the trust that is the foundation of all we do, the trust of the...

To va asserted reaching down the organization to get Additional Information. I think your sense is an accurate one. Historically they have operated in an insular organization. Part of what we have been doing is dismantling a lot of those barriers. Since my first day as acting secretary, every single morning at 9 00 a. M. We have something called access stand up. Senior leaders from across vha and the department up in our integrated Operations Center and bore into data are round access to care. T...

All right, senator burr suggests maybe we should make a wait a few minutes for other members to come back from recess. Lets take a quick recess here. Its create cal we continue to have these hearings to do everything we can to hold v. A. s feet to the fire and make sure that accountability is there. We know some things now that we did not know at the last hearing. We know for a fact that v. A. s wait list manipulation and access to care issues is, in fact, systemic. Report after report has confi...

To receive Mental Health care at a Outpatient Clinic in pennsylvania. He was told he would be unable to get an appointment for six months. When that employee left another va employee lean in to tell the veteran that if he told her he was thinking of killing himself she would be able to get him appointment much sooner in three months instead of six. Luckily that veteran wasnt considering suicide. But what about those veterans who are . How many of the tens of thousands veterans that va admitted h...

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How about i separate out the iran question from the Health Care Question . On the health or question that care question, i have answered several times, the bottom line is that we are going to continue to work every single day to make sure that implementation of the Health Care Law and the website and all elements of it, including the grandfather clause work better every civil day. As i said in Previous Press conferences, were going to make mistakes, and were going to have problems, but my intent...

So what we did with the information this year is see how some sites where it was posted and get the information and when we send it out and if we dont see it on a site visit we hand it to the provider and so there is that signage and sites like larkin has signage i would say 60 have signage up in english and spanish. I would appreciate maybe you could share with me the information you have in terms of who has the signage and who doesnt . That would be great. I appreciate it. Sure. Thank you supe...