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At the same time, weve had a large increase in care in the community, choice hasnt worked as intended. Here are some things were doing to fix it. On april 24th we changed the measure from Straight Line to driving distance. Using the fastest route. This roughly doubles the number of veterans eligible for the 40mile program under choice. Excuse me. But there is much more to do. A followon mailing to all eligible veterans is about to go out. Weve Just Launched a major change in internal processes to make choice the default option for care in the community. Additional staff training and communicat...

Captioning performed by vitac forward to hearing first from sloan gibson. Thank you, mr. Chairman. Chairman isakson Ranking Member blumenthal and the committee, were committed to making the Choice Program work and to providing veterans timely and geographically accessible care, using care in the community whenever necessary. Ill talk shortly about what were doing and the help that we need from congress to make all of that happen. First, i want to talk very briefly about access to care. Most mornings at 9 00 a. M. , for the last year, Senior Leaders from across the department gathered to focus ...

Disease and you dont have money to treat them and, frankly, i think its time to talk to the manufacturer of this drug and ask them if they are being very generous in providing these drugs, hepatitis c drugs, for free. Very generous. For whatever reasons they are doing that. But maybe at a time when their profits are soaring, maybe they might want to respect the veterans of this country who might die or become much sicker because they dont have access to this wonderful product. And as senator blumenthal mentioned, if they are not prepared to come to the table you think youve done well by gettin...

Hello, welcome to countdown. Im mark martin. Bloomberg reporters are standing by across the world, ready to deliver the stories. Caroline hyde is watching altice. Ryan chilcote is looking ahead to the talks this week. Is looking at the business stories related to any sanctions against russia. The ban against bp has been in place since the spill at the gulf in 2010. An exclusive interview with the ceo of the Company Behind the vision effects for the hit film gravity. Oscarwinner William Sergeant will join us later on. Earnings withd our reporter caroline hyde. Remember, this is a telecom giant,...

The fillmore to giving the store to Community Events and doing all kinds of other things. There was at least three or 5 commitments from that company who came out from new york and stood here selling the community all the wonderful things they were doing. And from what i hear, nothing has remained active. I go to the fillmore frequently and i dont see any minority being trained or present in that particular store when i go in there i mostly leave because i cannot interact with the sales people. It doesnt work for me. Everything is over 600 anyway, even if i want to look, i have to get out of t...