Those reductions would have these effects. It would cut veterans medical care by 690 million. It would eliminate the funding for four Major Construction projects. This would reduce the va ability to provide additional Outpatient Services and will impact the following projects. The planned rehab therapy building in st. Louis missouri. The initial phase of the alameda california outpatient clinic, construction of the longsought after french california communitybased outpatient clinic. The replacement 155 bed Community Living center in. Center in. , maryland and would eliminate funding for cemetery Expansion Projects in st. Louis portland riverside, bayer month, and pensacola and a new column in alameda at reducing our ability to provide burial honors for as many as 18,000 veterans and eligible family members annually. The impact of these tested veterans care and benefits is unacceptable to me and i no it is unacceptable to members of congress. Chairman, Ranking Member members of the comm
I do catch instances where i wish we were more transparent and better about customer service. The other thing id like to mention. We had a group get together in little rock to discuss reimbursement to providers that have provided outside care. Youll have situations that arise, now with this 40mile rule that the v. A. Owes this money, it appears the v. A. Owes a lot of people in arkansas a lot of money. And has not been very forthcoming in paying those bills. Its another thing that makes it such that the trust issue that we talk about. The other problem is, if you dont pay your bills theyre going to quit dealing with you. And then, thats the greatest thing. And that really is going to affect quality of care. Can you quickly mention that . I will, and maybe ill ask carolyn to comment. I talked about the five strategies from my v. A. One of them i talked about was improving our internal support services. And going to assured Services Model where we centralize the bill paying. So thats all
With the cuban people. One thing they need is our technology. They have fallen behind us. They need access to more of our products such as Farm Equipment. We have some limitations as what we can ship to cuba. One thing we found, for example we took gifts of fencing tools and a set of wrenches down to them. If some of the professionals that were on our trade delegation werent sure if that was a very good gift to take when we took it to the farmers, they had had tears in their eyes that they went and the subsequent trade mission, they showed us all the fences that were built with our tools that we took down because we understood what their needs are. So as we get some efficiencies in our shipping, and bring our farmer to farmer interaction, we will improve their productivity which will increase the demand for our u. S. Goods. Do you have anything to add . Ill echo on to that. I think sometimes our biggest restriction on trade with cuba may be us and not them. And you have the power to wo
Veterans Affairs Secretary testified on capitol hill tuesday on the 2016 Veterans Affairs budget request. The proposed budget is 168. 8 billion, including funding to expand v. A. Care to veterans and transform the v. A. Into a customer centric department. This is about one hour and 15 minutes. Tom fuller was a vietnam veteran and the marines and presented himself to the heinz the a with chest pains and went to see the head of cardiology. He did not want to be at a whim loss record, referred him to the floor and there, tom expired of a heart attack. We want to make sure that kind of thing never happens to our veterans, that we have a confident and Strong Administration of people. Mr. Secretary, i have raised this issue a number of times. Behind that is the story of a cardiologist who witnessed this whole thing and felt there was an outright malpractice happening in this case. I know you have a 10 minute opening. Secretary mcdonald thank you mr. Chairman. I have a brief opening statement
Its election day. Turkey holds its first vote since antigovernment protests last year. Good morning to you and welcome to al jazeera america. Im Morgan Radford life in new york city. The search for survivors of that Deadly Washington mud slide enters a second week. The number of missing has been revised from 90 down to 30. That drop due to duplicate reports of missing people and others found safe and sound. But the death toll increased to 18, with more bodies waiting to be identified. Crews are using heavy equipment, dogs and bare hands to search for the victims. An estimated 180 people were in the path when it hit the village of oso. Seven were immediately pulled from the record and are hospitalized. We have more from derrington. A week after the mud slide heavy rain soaks trees, mud and debris. Thats all thats left of the lives here. Earlier at 10 37am a moment of silence. The moment a week ago when oso became home to one of the worst mudslides in Washington State history. More than