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Doug Collins: “We spent, you know, 14, 15 billion dollars and got nothing…”

Featuring: Doug Collins, Republican | Secretary of Veterans Affairs | National

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'How Have We Been Able To Fix The System?': Guest Asks Collins About Modernizing VA Health System

Published | Video Starts at 04:16

They came back and said standardization was one of the things we looked at very quickly. Last year, during my confirmation year, it was one of the first things I heard about. We spent, you know, 14, 15 billion dollars and got nothing for it. So what we did is this. I came in my first three weeks of the job. This is what happened. I brought in our folks who run the HRM system. (04:16–04:21)

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Asserts that $14-15 billion was spent on the VA electronic health record system with no results.

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