Good afternoon, everybody. Thank you for being here. Before we begin, i would ask unanimous consent all the statements would be added into the records, all would have five legislative days to revise and extend their remarks. Without objection, so ordered. Today we meet to begin debate and negotiations regarding the house an employment to the Senate Amendment to hr 3230, the veterans access to care act of 2014. Im going to recognize myself first and then recognize our cochair senator sanders. Following that conferees recognized in order of seniority alternating between the house and senate and majority and minority bodies. Eef will have five minutes at a maximum for brief remarks and absent conferee recognized the next available slot from his or her chamber. Though i recognize we have a lot to discuss, i would ask everybody to please be cognizant of the fiveminute time limit so each one of us has an opportunity to be heard on this matter. First time in 15 years the Veterans Affairs comm
Items that have to be addressed. Obviously, we must pave the way for the va to use nonva care to expand veteran access and clear the current backlog. But we cant just fix the problem by simply throwing more money at it. The va has had more medical care funding than it could spend during each of the last four fiscal years. To include 1. 4 billion as recently as 2010 and was set to carry over 450 million this year before dipping into those funds for the current accelerated access to care initiative. This is led to multiple testimonies by both va and nonva witnesses who have noted that the Biggest Issue is not a lack of funding but a welcome of accountability. For this reason, the legislation that we mold must hold individuals accountable who fail to meet performance standards and oversee mismanagement and neglect. The perverse incentives that led to the manipulation of scheduling data and secret lists must be eliminated. Any incentives Going Forward must have an impact on improving patie
This transition phase. We saw that only a fairly small percentage of consumers have on line access to their medical records. It is about 26 of people who also had said in ehr. For those that did, their views were very different and their experiences were very different. There were more engaged in their care and more motivated to do something to improve their care and they felt more confident in their clinicians ability to manage their care with them and began to really set up more of a partnership constructs. It will be very interesting to see end stage 2, where the requirement will be applicable applicable the chicken go on line and you can download and you can transmit and i think that will be interesting. From the consumer viewpoint, we are at a point where they are experiencing some tangible benefits. It is early in the program and that is fabulous. I think what is about to happen will the transformational. There is one allegation related to Electronic Health records of which is th
Doctors have declared her brain dead. But the family claims to have proof shes still very much alive and responding. So lets get to it. Its 3 00 on the east coast, 2 00 p. M. Here in the heart of dixie. The whus set to hold a briefing on the governments response to ebola in the next hour. Meantime in dallas, hazmat crews have shown up to deaccontaminat the apartment where four people remain under lockdown after having dregt contact with that map. Doctors put him on isolation on sunday. Locked inside the apartment a woman and her child and two nephews. Theyre looking for 100 who had any contact with this patient since he came to the United States. Today state Health Officials say they have identified 50 people they need to monitor daily. And theyre calling ten of them high risk contacts. Now an american cameraman who works for nbc news has tested positive for ebol larks but he got it in lie breer i cant, not in the United States. Not a single solitary human being has gotten ebola in the
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