Good afternoon. This hearing will come to order. I want to welcome everyone who has joined us today. Today, we will address the lack of oversight and internal controls regarding controlled substances within the Veterans Health administration that leave facilities open to Drug Diversion and veteran harm. The diversion of drugs from Va Health Care facilities is an incredible Patient Safety issue that puts veterans, va employees, and the public at tremendous risk. Unfortunately, the news has recently been filled with story after story of Drug Diversion within va. In little rock, arkansas, a va Pharmacy Technician reportedly used his access to medical suppliers websites to order and divert 4,000 oxycodone pills, over 3,000 hydrocodone pills, and more than 14,000 viagra and cialis pills at a cost to va of more than 70,000. This technician was allegedly selling these drugs on the street where they had a value of more than 160,000. At a va facility in florida, a registered nurse was apparentl
Theft and sale of drugs by agency workers. The House Veterans Affairs Committee Held this hearing late last month. Good afternoon. This hearing will come to order. I want to welcome everyone who has joined us today. Today we will address the lack of oversight in internal controls regarding controlled substances within the Veterans Health administration that leave facilities open to Drug Diversion and veteran harm. The diversion of drugs from v. A. Health care facilities is an incredible Patient Safety issue that puts veterans, v. A. Employees and the public at tremendous risk. Unfortunately the news has recently been filled with story after story of Drug Diversions within v. A. In little rock, arkansas, v. A. Pharmacy technician reportedly used his access to medical supplies, websites to order and divert 4,000 oxycodone pills over 3,000 hydrocodone pills and more than 14,000 viagra and cialis pills at the cost of the v. A. Of more than 70,000. This technician was allegedly selling thes
Marginalized, and not presented externally. The second set of findings and conclusions is that the cia provided extensive inaccurate information about the program and its effectiveness to the white house, the department of justice, congress, the cia Inspector General, the media, and the american public. This conclusion is somewhat personal for me. I remember clearly when the director briefed the Intelligence Committee for the first time on the socalled eits at that september 2006 committee meeting. He referred specifically to a quote tummy slap end quote among other techniques and presented the entire set of techniques as minimally harmful and applied in a highly clinical and professional manner. They were not. The committees report demonstrates that these techniques were physically very harmful. And that the constraints that existed on paper in washington did not match the way techniques were used at said that blood testing is more precise in the past two decades, but restrictions wou
Information about the program and its effectiveness to the white house, the department of justice, congress, the c. I. A. Inspector general, the media, and the american public. This conclusion is somewhat personal for me. I remember clearly when director hayden briefed the Intelligence Committee for the first time on the socalled e. I. T. s at that september, 2006 committee meeting. He referred specifically to a quote actually slap end quote among other techniques and presented the entire set of techniques as minimally harmful and implied in a highly clinical and professional manner. They were not. The committees report demonstrates that these techniques were physically very harmful and that the constraints that existed on paper in washington did not match the way techniques were used at c. I. A. Sites around the world. A particular of particular note was the treatment of abu zubaydah over the span of 17 days in august of 2002. This involved nonstop interrogation and abuse, 24 7, from
Are you sure you want to say that, your knowledge . In fact today was the payout you you want to say that the incremental medicaid payment would, in fact, have had a surplus, not a deficit. My recollection of the numbers and i have not looked in a while by the end of the decade on a yeartoyear basis the Affordable Care act lowered the deficit. I believe that would have been deficit. You are aware this cbo has revised the number and now show a deficit and have really since shortly after the parties changed and they redid their numbers. Are you aware that they show a deficit . They no longer stand behind the numbers trying passage . I sure wish you had been aware of it. You had not heard that. I dont think so. We will check on that. One of the things that i think about and talk about is that we have a a limited amount of time to be in these offices. I am so sorry, mr. Gruber, that you said what you said. You said. You can call it conjecture, whatever. What it does is distract. It it dist