Infrastructure to deliver that care. Within the v. A. Within the v. A. But where we cant justify that business decision we need to be outsourcing. And just one more thing that follows up with that. In another year you guys are probably going to be gone with the new administration. I hope not, i hope yall stay but youre probably going to be gone. Are you laying into process so that whoever takes your place assuming that youre not brought back that the transition would be seamless and the justification to keep going . Were absolutely looking at ways that we can institutionalize what were talking about doing. Thats a better word. And i would say that one of the important roles that this committee can play is to be a stalwart of continuity about some of these operational things. Youve had six or seven different outsourcing. How to make sure theres a direct connection from v. A. And Community Providers and from the business side having one pot of money for care. I think what we tried to do
Call this meeting to order. Welcome, everybody. Hope yall had a great thanksgiving and hope everybody has a wonderful Holiday Season coming up. This is a very important hearing for the United States senate. On november 4th, if my memory is correct, we had a meeting at the va. Sloane gibson, dr. Schulkin and some others were in the room. In terms of Va Health Service delivery to our veterans, veterans choice, consolidating programs, reimbursement rates so there wasnt any preference over another. A reality in our lifetime and in their lifetime. With that will come a number of decisions. This will not be the first time i heard most of this information. We had that meeting before. It will be the first time a lot of people have heard it. Of people have heard it. Of people have heard it. Of people have heard it. This is a critical there are a critical number of decisions we will have to make to make my va work. The new veterans choice work and make sure that va does what it does best well bu
What youve probably thought about in terms of the enabling legislation for this particular program. If you dont do that, then youre building the transformed system on outdated policies that may or hey not have ever been appropriate. They just happened to get through congress and you have to live up to them because theyve been mandated to you. Im not going to get into a lot of questions except that the reason i continue to have this flavor to my discussion is i want to help you establish a plan that transcends your tenure and your positions. So do we. That continues when we get another president. That needs to be articulated. And we need people in the va to put the mirror back on us, saying youre asking me to do this thats shifting away from the other thing you asked me to do. If we do at that, and you put the mirror in, its our problem. If we make a request, and you dont reflect back on us, its your problem. And i want to make this our problem so that we can help facilitate the transfo
When you recognize something isnt right, make the call to the Veterans Crisis line at 18002738255 and press 1. Broadcast center, this is abc7 news. Now at 11 00, get ready for a wet and windy morning chute as we take a live look outside with our abc7 roof cam. It is dry right now, but thats about to change in a few hours. Good evening and thank you for joining us. Im ama daetz. Im dan ashley. We have Live Team Coverage and we will start with sandhya patel. She is tracking the storm with live doppler 7hd. Dan and ama, as we look at live doppler 7hd you will notice it is starting to rain in the north bay. It is light, but it is measuring. I will take you in closer and we are tracking scattered showers. Look at the Bigger Picture and this is a classic storm. It is not influenced by el nino. On the storm impact scale it is a two. You can expect half an inch to an inch of rain in most areas. The stormest part is tomorrow mornings commute with gusts up to 45 miles an hour. The wind advisory
Broadcast center, this is abc7 news. Now at 11 00, get ready for a wet and windy morning chute as we take a live look outside with our abc7 roof cam. It is dry right now, but thats about to change in a few hours. Good evening and thank you for joining us. Im ama daetz. Im dan ashley. We have Live Team Coverage and we will start with sandhya patel. She is tracking the storm with live doppler 7hd. Dan and ama, as we look at live doppler 7hd you will notice it is starting to rain in the north bay. It is light, but it is measuring. I will take you in closer and we are tracking scattered showers. Look at the Bigger Picture and this is a classic storm. It is not influenced by el nino. On the storm impact scale it is a two. You can expect half an inch to an inch of rain in most areas. The stormest part is tomorrow mornings commute with gusts up to 45 miles an hour. The wind advisory is up for the north bay mountains. It runs until 10 00 a. M. And the power lines are getting knocked down with