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I went to elementary school in Falls Church, Va.
I need the VA to be flexible enough to send me outside for care.
I am frustrated and outraged by the slow nature of change at the VA.
I go the VA Hospital when I have a problem and the doctor jumps on me.
That massiveness of bureaucracy at the VA is chronic and has been chronic.
I'm still Elliott Yamin. I'm still the funky white Jewish boy from Richmond, Va.
Across the VA's system in our state, the wait times are entirely too long on average.
My mom worked at the VA for years, so any time I can do anything to help, it's a must.
For the VA to thrive as an integrated health care network, it must be agile and adaptive.
Whether you're a man or a woman, you should get the same degree of healthcare from our VA.
I've never had to spend any time in the VA hospital, so I really can't speak for those guys.
VA is a unique national resource that is worth saving, and I am committed to doing just that.
I experienced what can never be duplicated in the private sector - the communal aspect of VA.
My dad was a 30-year career Marine. He was stationed in Quantico Va., and another military base.
Norman Hooten's dedication and commitment to serving his fellow veterans is what VA is all about.
The VA does a lot of good things, but determining if a firm is a small business is not one of them.
I served on active duty and know that active duty personnel have basically zero interaction with the VA.
With more than 1,300 sites of care, VA operates the largest integrated health care system in the county.
The VA MISSION Act is one of the first bills I was fortunate enough to support and see enacted into law.
A stuffy Capitol Hill hearing room differs quite a bit from the wide open, rural landscape of Louisa County, Va.
Free open-source software, by its nature, is unlikely to feature secret back doors that lead directly to Langley, Va.
We are a system where I can tell you that nobody is doing more for behavioral health care in this country than the VA.
When our veterans walk into any VA facility, they converse with men and women who speak the unique language of military service.
The broken VA disability claims process has failed to adequately aid veterans with toxic exposure during their military service.
My main focus when I do my makeup is my eyes - I accentuate my eyes, and they look bigger. More 'va va voom,' I guess you can say.
The VA should use every tool at their disposal to support and treat our veterans, including the specialized care offered by service dogs.
Caring for our nation's veterans must be our top priority as we work to create a more efficient and effective healthcare system at the VA.
Veterans Affairs (VA) is a mess of a government agency and too often abuses the rights and interests of veterans it is supposed to protect.
Many of Mississippi's veterans and their families know the hardship associated with driving long distances to access VA healthcare benefits.
By boosting oversight and accountability, we can empower the VA in its core mission of helping the men and women who have served our country.
On Monument Avenue in Richmond, Va., there are statues of five Confederate luminaries and then, incongruously in this company, one of Arthur Ashe.
Congress needs to give the VA every tool possible to meet the mental health challenges facing our veterans before they get to the point of danger.
When I'm president of the United States, we're going to have a VA that cares more about our veterans than about the bureaucrats who work at the VA.
I've been doing the 'Sherman's Lagoon' strip for about 18 years, and I was a political cartoonist before that for my hometown paper in Alexandria, Va.
It's too bad we can't take VA leadership and export it and give it to some of our adversaries around the planet. Let them suffer under VA's leadership.
We have more women serving in the military than any time in our nation's history, and yet the VA has not done a pivot to look at women's healthcare issues.
When vets come home from war they are going through a tremendous change in identity. Then the VA, and others, encourage them to view themselves as disabled.
The VA secretary runs the second largest federal agency in the country, providing services to American patriots who risked everything in service to this nation.
I graduated from the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill with degrees in journalism and Spanish in 2001 and landed my first on-air job in Charlottesville, Va.
When Congress puts party labels aside, like we did on VA reform, we can accomplish some great things for the American people. But those occasions were far too rare.
A veteran deserves the very best health care anywhere. That means sometimes, they should go out into the private sector if something's being done better than the VA.
I also believe our country made a promise to veterans and their families. Veterans have kept their end of the bargain, and now, the VA is looking to pull out the rug.
Any veteran can tell you it is already hard enough to see a doctor down at the VA and get the health care they were promised when they signed up to serve this country.
Every loan that we did in the City of Detroit in the 10 years they studied - between 2005 and 2014 - were conventional FHA, VA loans with average interest rates of 6%.
I expect VA's inspector general and the FBI to work closely together so that we can identify and eliminate the flaws that allowed this leak and prosecute any criminal acts.
My childhood in Arlington, Va., a middle class suburb of Washington, was uneventful. Ours was a very intellectual family, and we were encouraged to read at a very early age.
The men and women of today's VA are dedicated to caring for today's veterans and stand ready to provide for our servicemembers who now defend our freedoms and our way of life.
My stepdaughter, who is based in Alaska right now, is a brand-new lieutenant in the Army. She could be deployed in 18 months. And another stepdaughter is a physician for the VA.
When an American veteran comes to VA, it is not up to him to employ a team of lawyers to get VA to say yes. It is up to VA to get the veteran to yes, and that is customer service.
I do think that VA, as the largest employer of nurses and the largest health system in the country, often does become a place where we can demonstrate advances in medical practice.