Color, irrespective of party affiliation. We are one america. And lets try to act that way. And i close this briefing. Thank you. As that herring comes to a close, lawmakers discussing how the Veterans Affairs department, this is a live hearing getting under way now on cspan 3. If covid19 turned into a pandemic and portions of the United States Health Care System broke down the va may need to come back and ask for additional funds and since then congress has appropriated 17. 2 billion for vhas covid19 Pandemic Response and i was glad to help advocate for that funding. Now im not sure that many of us here on the dais know what to expect during that february hearing nor did we fully grasp the enormity of the Public Health challenges americans would soon face from the pandemic. This is largely because the administration failed to recognize these risks and communicate them to the American Public in advance of the crisis. Here we are a little more than three months later and exactly 90 days
You can finish watching this program on our website, c span. Org as we take you bye to a house hearing examining recent glitches in the va website. Ineffective payments to veterans and their survivors. You are watching live coverage on cspan3. Were here today to challenge the problems on the va. Gov. Va aggressively both a va. Gov over the past five years. Today it is more than website. It is a platform for veterans to access the care and benefits that they have earned. I agree the veterans should be able to manage their healthcare and benefits online. Rather than waiting on hold with a call center to do everything. But to perform all those functions va. Gov now interfaces with most of the systems we have discussed in previous hearings. Those systems and interfaces have significant bugs and some of them are simply obsolete. Va. Org has gaps and veterans falling into those gaps. Nearly 100,000 veterans, that we know of have been struggling with the va. Org bugs to access their benefits.
Good afternoon, the subcommittee will come to order. Thank you so much for your patients. We had things to take care of during the course of the day so many times we double schedule. We are here today to examine the pattern of problems at va. Gov affecting veterans benefit claims. The va aggressively build out va. Gov the past five years. Today it is more than a website. It is a selfservice platform for veterans to access the care and benefits theyve earned. Iov absolutely agree that veters should be able to manage their healthcare and benefits online rather than waiting on hold for the call center to do everything. To perform all those functions, va. Gov now interfaces with most of the systems we have discussed into previous hearings. Those systems interfaces have significant bugs and some of them are simply obsolete. Va. Gov has gaps, and veterans are falling into those gaps. Nearly 100,000 veterans that we know of have been struggling with the va. Gov bugs to access the benefits. In
You can finish watching this program on our website, c span. Org as we take you bye to a house hearing examining recent glitches in the va website. Ineffective payments to veterans and their survivors. You are watching live coverage on cspan3. Were here today to challenge the problems on the va. Gov. Va aggressively both a va. Gov over the past five years. Today it is more than website. It is a platform for veterans to access the care and benefits that they have earned. I agree the veterans should be able to manage their healthcare and benefits online. Rather than waiting on hold with a call center to do everything. But to perform all those functions va. Gov now interfaces with most of the systems we have discussed in previous hearings. Those systems and interfaces have significant bugs and some of them are simply obsolete. Va. Org has gaps and veterans falling into those gaps. Nearly 100,000 veterans, that we know of have been struggling with the va. Org bugs to access their benefits.
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