The VA recently released the results of its annual All Employee Survey (AES). The survey is sent out to employees of VHA, VBA, and NCS and is put together by the National Center for Organizational Development (NCOD). A recurring theme throughout their surveys, this year and in the past, is an inquiry as to whether the employees of VA are feeling burned out.

NAVAPPD is your only voice in Washington, DC, and we will continue to fight for our members and for the best VA health care. At NAVAPPD, we appreciate having your vote of confidence, and together our voices continue to be heard.

As we begin 2021, I ask all of you to keep in mind NAVAPPD’s mission to deliver the very best healthcare to veterans. Looking back at 2020 it has been a difficult year for everyone but I am optimistic about 2021.

The rise of unsupervised nurse practitioners, and now possibly unsupervised nurse anesthetists has led to the replacement of qualified medical professionals by lesser trained individuals. As corporations and governments seek to save money, who are the guardians of our nation’s healthcare as we watch it continue to decline? We reached out to Secretary Wilkie, urging him to uphold current patient, safety-centered policies.

It is that time of year again. No, not the holiday season, but the time for the politics of Washington, DC to get in the way of getting important things done. Things like passing a budget to keep the government operations running. When the House of Representative, Senate, and President cannot come together to pass a budget, they eventually cobble together a Continuing (budget) Resolution. This CR, as it is known, provides ongoing funding for prescribed government operations for a specified period of time.

Here’s a story about me and you. It’s about commercial aviation, and I’ve tried to include all the relevant facts for you to draw conclusions. But it’s all about me and you. I am Captain Michel Asseline. You are Captain Michel Asseline. Any doctor who tries to practice in medicine today, except for my colleagues in Direct Primary Care, live in the world of Captain Michel Asseline every day. Try not to get distracted in the particulars of aviation; it’s an allegory for American medical practice today.

ROE, DAVID P. (PHIL), a Representative from Tennessee elected as a Republican to the One Hundred Eleventh and to the six succeeding Congresses (January 3, 2009-present); chair, Committee on Veterans' Affairs (One Hundred Fifteenth Congress) and ranking member, Committee on Veteran Affairs (One Hundred Sixteenth Congress),

Representative Roe will be retiring at the conclusion of the 116th Congress and NAVAPD President Samuel Spagnolo asked him the following questions about his tenure on the House Veterans Affairs Committee.