Cathy McMorris Rodgers Quotes

If you had to put people, senators - if they had to go for their V.A. to get care, it would probably get fixed.

For our veterans to have to wait long periods of time to receive care is not only unacceptable to us, but to elected officials as well.

We need to modernize an outdated agency, bring it into the 21st century, and ensure that the VA is better equipped to treat the health and psychological issues that are unique to our veterans.

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.

How do you deliver the best possible and affordable health care to maximize health?

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.

Be an advocate for your loved ones in the hospital. Ask tough questions of your local hospital and health system about preparedness for the likeliest emergencies, and express your views on how medical resources should be allocated in case they ever fall short.

It is my passionate belief that we can all have better health care through rationing.

The decision is not whether or not we will ration care. The decision will be whether we ration care with our eyes open.

As efforts to fix this failure at the Veterans Administration continue, I also intend to persist in demanding answers and action on the establishment of a new clinic to serve the veterans in North Central Washington.

We should be tough on a bureaucracy that fails to turn aid money into critical services for the poor.

Cost containment too often becomes care containment. And it affects the least powerful population sector with the quietest voice.

The VA MISSION Act is one of the first bills I was fortunate enough to support and see enacted into law.

The VA MISSION Act signed into law by President Trump will do a great deal to improve access to health care for rural veterans but it will require vigilance to ensure we provide annual appropriations needed to implement it.

There's a knee jerk reaction in Washington when something isn't perfect to just add more money, add more personnel, it'll all be OK. That's not true, especially with complex issues like veterans health care.

We need to move past blame and make sure we are delivering care to our veterans.

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.

There will be far greater accountability, dramatically improved access, responsiveness, and expanded care options, but the Department of Veterans Affairs will not be privatized under my watch.

We have the greatest people on Earth in our military. We don't take care of our veterans.

As a veteran, I believe we have a responsibility to take care of all our men and women who have served - and I will fight to fix the crisis at the Veterans Administration caused by negligent leadership in Washington.

[Donald] Trump was gonna investigate the whole kebang up there and figure out what had gone wrong and get rid of all the deadweight at every agency - EPA, DOJ, what have you.

Government sponsors untold waste, criminality and inequality in every sphere of life it touches, giving little or nothing in return.

All the things I resent most about out-of-control government and the politicians who support it, grow it, or simply fail to deal with it, what angers me above all else is the knowledge that all of this waste and ruin is entirely preventable.

I assume the president's going to say he got bad intelligence... I think that wherever you see poverty, whether it's in the white rural community or the black urban community, you see that the resources have been sucked up into the war and tax cuts for the rich.

If you don't like going to the DMV, imagine if the only place you could go to resolve a health care problem is some government agency.