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Vice chairman has said quite correctly, well, this doesnt we need to come up until next year, but thats a long time to wait. My concern is that we do need to do something there. I dont think its necessary to put the fisa bill first. Our bill is ready to go. It could pass the senate. I think at the very least they would show that we can pass something. We can get it conferenced. We can get it back before the senate for a final vote and we can get to the president. So we can do this with not a great deal of debate, probably with a joint rule between the two sides that there be a couple of hours ...

Of care. Many experienced obstacles while trying to establish needed care being treated in the emergency room. The lack of followup coordination and quality and continuity of care, many of these is troubling and unacceptable. The most troubling issue described in the report was the awareness of the ongoing scheduling and challenges that many facilities face. Furthermore they had opportunities to address the systemic culture of inappropriate scheduling practices. They did not act to address the inappropriate practices of manipulation of wait time data. This lack of accountability was engrajed b...

Referring to the 93 other facilities. We have some initial reporting on those. As of yesterday, given the department 12 individual reports for them to examine and to determine what action would be appropriate in view of the specifics of each of those reports. Very much active. I can tell you that at 42 different facilities of the 93, we found the practice of using the next available date as a desired date. It is something we reported in the final report and interim report. We have 19 facilities, where an apartment was cancel and rescheduled for the same appointment time for the purpose of givi...

Management that pushed. It is a combination. When something is going on for as many years, not everywhere, but at a number of facilities, it is an accepted way. Involved in scheduling, and they come in as a new hire, someone says, this is hour you do t they may not realize that someone is telling them the improper way to do it. It is a combination of things, the bottom line is, who is in charge. When you get them a policy directive from vha, do you enforce it or ignore it . That is the bottom line. My time is expired. Let me say, i thank you and your staff for the process tlau going through, i...

Cannot get into specific takeaways. But what have you learned about of v. A. Over that period time not down to the specifics . Referring to the 93 other facilities . Have some initial reporting on those as of yesterday. We have given the department 12 individual reports for them to examine and determine what action would be appropriate in view of the specifics of each of those reports. 93 are stillur very much active. At 42can tell you that different facilities of those 93 we found the practice of using the next available date as the desired date. It was something that was reported on in the i...