Quotes About VA

I experienced what can never be duplicated in the private sector - the communal aspect of VA.

It shouldn't take an emergency for this Administration to deal with the health care needs of our nation's heroes. Funding the VA and our bringing our troops home safely should never be treated as an afterthought.

Those that have received care here in Des Moines at the VA center or the VA hospital here have said that they do receive good care. However, it's getting into the system - the wait periods. We have to do something about that. The care here has been good. We're not seeing that in other states.

The VA does a lot of good things, but determining if a firm is a small business is not one of them.

Whether you're a man or a woman, you should get the same degree of healthcare from our VA.

We are a system where I can tell you that nobody is doing more for behavioral health care in this country than the VA.

VA is a unique national resource that is worth saving, and I am committed to doing just that.

I am frustrated and outraged by the slow nature of change at the VA.

Every loan that we did in the City of Detroit in the 10 years they studied - between 2005 and 2014 - were conventional FHA, VA loans with average interest rates of 6%.

We need to address the systemic structural issues within the VA - the misallocation of resources, the interminably long waiting lists, the bureaucratic inefficiencies - to ensure that our American heroes are properly protected the second they return home from war.

For the VA to thrive as an integrated health care network, it must be agile and adaptive.

I go the VA Hospital when I have a problem and the doctor jumps on me.

It's too bad we can't take VA leadership and export it and give it to some of our adversaries around the planet. Let them suffer under VA's leadership.

We have more women serving in the military than any time in our nation's history, and yet the VA has not done a pivot to look at women's healthcare issues.

I don't believe that the problems in the VA are necessarily about money. When I look back over the problems of the VA over the past decade, this is fundamentally a system that hasn't kept up with modernization in the way that the rest of health care in the private sector has.

Accountability is a two way street. We can't just make it easier for us to fire people; we must make it easier for us to hire people. It takes VA an average of 240 days to complete the hiring process for executives joining VA from outside government. We are losing talented people because it simply takes too long.

It was clear that VA was in need of reform, and when the president asked for help, I could not say no. First, I felt I could help, and my private sector experience was relevant. Second, that this was my chance to give back to those that had stepped up to serve our country.

The VA secretary runs the second largest federal agency in the country, providing services to American patriots who risked everything in service to this nation.

I'll absolutely be focusing in on the defense of this nation and making sure that our men and women have the proper tools, training, and equipment to do their jobs, that they have clear rules of engagement and, in the event that something happens to them, that we have a VA system that actually works.

My stepdaughter, who is based in Alaska right now, is a brand-new lieutenant in the Army. She could be deployed in 18 months. And another stepdaughter is a physician for the VA.

When vets come home from war they are going through a tremendous change in identity. Then the VA, and others, encourage them to view themselves as disabled.

The VA MISSION Act is one of the first bills I was fortunate enough to support and see enacted into law.

For too long, rural America has not been prioritized for modernization projects at VA facilities.

Yes, there is a story about Agent Orange, and we knew that it harmed our troops and we knew how long it was to get the medical community to accept that, the military to accept it, the VA to accept it.