People. Iraqi the average sunni has no desire to live their life under isi rules. The good news is the average iraqi wants to move forward. Iraqi air force is basically granted, without american air power, it will be hard to turn the tide. You heard the reports the iranians say they want help. Should we encourage them to help , all of all things . We will probably need their help to hold that back. Their goal is to create a sectarian iraq. To have a puppet in baghdad, a shia dominated government where they control the outcome. Our goal is to have an inclusive iraq. Dealing with stalin, we will have to have some dialogue with iranians that say, lets coordinate efforts, but put a red line to the iranians. Do not use the crisis to take territory from the iraqi people. Put them on notice we will not iraq. Them invading into europe perspective from on the iran situation. The headline people blame the new horrors in iraq on the americanled invasion in 2003, but the exact inson why the countr
Crude oil will watch, as well, down 6 of the past 7 weeks. As we mentioned, our road map begins withal ibm. A deal to offload the chip business. Markets feeling the impact of that ibm news. The dow has been dragged lower but the s p holding on. Is this a setup for another volatile week . And as it fprepares to launch after the bell, apple launches a catch. Premarket, the dow component reporting 3. 68 a share. Well below forecast of 4. 31. Sales fell across several divisions. Ibms chairman and ceo Ginni Rometty say theyre disappointed in the performance and will pay 1. 5 billion to take over ibms chip unit. David will have that interview with rometty an hour from now. What are the key questions we need to ask . You know, i think, carl, when we talk about these companies these days the theme keeps coming up, whether it was ebay, hewlettpacka hewlettpackard, and now ibm. The speed is the overriding theme, having continued to speed up. What is that doing to so Many Companies in terms of th
I think there areas you have enough like cardio but neuro is difficult to fill anywhere. Did you notice a difference in the types of consult . We looked at gastro, physical therapy and also cardio and we heard there demand didnt keep pace with the number of providers they had. The demand kept increasing and they didnt have the providers to fill the slots. So it didnt matter. I thought it did. We didnt look at all specialties but those were the three we did. And one question i had. How much is your pay for performance, i asked last week or week before last, when you are evaluated is your pay for performance part of how many veterans are out sent out along with wait tight times . I dont believe so. All right. That is fine. I know the chairman asked, mr. Griffin, when you put a system in place that puts misinformation out there and you gain from the taxpayers that would seem to be a fraudulent case. I am looking at it as a layman. Not a lawyer. When you go out there and on purpose misled
Well to insure the veterans needs are met, that that nonva provider is respectfully working with a veteran, her or his family, to get into care. Thank you. The gao also reports that there is a consistent problem across vha with policy and procedures for handling noshows and cancelled appointments. Im aware that va, that you are working on an update to this scheduling policy. When do you anticipate this revision, revised po ills to be released and well address the noshow consistently throughout the va system and cancelled appointment sngs. I expect it will, sir. We had a Team Last Week reviewing the existing policy we have today and to determine whether or not we should rescind that policy and replace it with a clear, declaretive set of instructions for our schedulers in the front line. We expect to take that action. We will replace that policy with a revised policy. That allows us to have much more concrete sets of instruction on how to schedule, specific instructions for what to do, f
Us do our oversight hearing as well. I yield back the balance of my time. Thank you very much for your comments this evening. I would ask that all members would waive their Opening Statements is customary in the committee. I would invite the witnesses to please come to the witness table and as you are coming forward, i will introduce you. We will hear from dr. Debra draper, Record Health care for the Government Accountability office. Koski, richard griffin, acting Inspector General of the department of Veterans Affairs, mr. Griffin is accompanied by ms. Linda halliday, assistant inspector for general audits for the department of Veterans Affairs. Witnesses to stand, raise your right hand. Do you solemnly swear, under penalty of perjury, that the testimony or about to provide is the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth . Thank you very much please be seated. All of your complete written statements will be entered into the record. Here tonight being and dr. Draper, you are r