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handle is hein.cbhear/fdsysavfg0001 and id is 1 raw text is: AUTHENTICATEO U.S. GOVERNMENT INFORMATION GP MILITARY CONSTRUCTION, VETERANS AF- FAIRS, AND RELATED AGENCIES APPRO- PRIATIONS FOR FISCAL YEAR 2018 THURSDAY, MAY 4, 2017 U.S. SENATE, SUBCOMMITTEE OF THE COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS, Washington, DC. The subcommittee met at 10:32 a.m. in room SD-124, Dirksen Senate Office Building, Hon. Jerry Moran (chairman) presiding. Present: Senators Moran, Hoeven, Capito, Cochran, Schatz, Test- er, Udall, and Baldwin. VETERANS HEALTH ADMINISTRATION STATEMENT OF DR. KEVIN GALPIN, MD, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, TELE- HEALTH SERVICES OPENING STATEMENT OF SENATOR JERRY MORAN Senator MORAN. Good morning, everyone. Thank you for joining us. Welcome to our fourth subcommittee hearing which I now gavel to order. Thank you all for being here to discuss the benefits of telehealth at the Department of Veterans Affairs on behalf of vet- erans across the country. I will have my formal statement submitted for the record and re- duce my remarks to just off the cuff. This is an important hearing. In my world, it has a lot to do with access. I represent a very rural state. But I would also admit that I almost never hear anything from veterans or the VA about telehealth in Kansas. I know his- torically and in conversations that I have had over a long period of time that telehealth at the VA gets high marks. It is considered one of the best programs in the country, but I have to admit that in my experience in dealing with veterans on almost a daily basis every day this is not a methodology by which I have seen veterans come to me and say, This works so well for me. So I am very anx- ious to hear the story and see it demonstrated as something of great value. This hearing in significant part is occurring because of the en- couragement and suggestion of the senator from Hawaii. And I ap- preciate very much his suggestion that we do this and I look for- ward to working with him in making certain that the outcome of this hearing is something that is beneficial to veterans in Hawaii and Kansas and Montana and West Virginia and across the coun- try.

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