We are a system where I can tell you that nobody is doing more for behavioral health care in this country than the VA.

I don't believe that the problems in the VA are necessarily about money. When I look back over the problems of the VA over the past decade, this is fundamentally a system that hasn't kept up with modernization in the way that the rest of health care in the private sector has.

With more than 1,300 sites of care, VA operates the largest integrated health care system in the county.

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.

Let's face it, in America today we don't have a health care system, we have a sick care system.

The real cure for what ails our health care system today is less government and more freedom.