Before we began this morning and want to recognize some participants that are in the audience with us from the American Legion boys nation of joined us here today. All will you address to fund the debt of gratitude and stepping up as my Ranking Member has said during the very trying times for the department, and we appreciate you being here. He is accompanied by mr. Denny pommel, direct deputy undersecretary for benefits of the department of veterans affairs. Assistant director undersecretary for health and administrative operations at the department of veterans affairs. As always, your complete written so it statement, mr. Secretary, will be made a part of the hearing record. With that, you are recognized for your Opening Statements. Thank you, mr. Chairman. I will get straight to business. Concerning health care we have serious issues. Here is how i see the problems. First of veterans are waiting to long for care. Second, scheduling and improprieties were widespread, including delibe
The watchdog said that the Veterans Health Administration does not have the modeling capability to predict how much supplemental funding would be needed.