Rep. Roy Blunt said he is open to looking at Sen. Claire McCaskill's legislation designed at improving oversight at military hospitals like Walter Reed.
McCaskill was in Springfield Thursday discussing a bill that would aim to improve standards at medical facilities and simplify the paperwork process for recovering soldiers.
"If the Senator wants to pursue that, I don't have any problem with the idea," Blunt said. "I think we want to be careful about specifics of the idea."
Blunt said Congressional oversight is important, but added, "I think you can overdo it."
The 7th District Congressman also said he would like to see a consolidation of the two major military hospitals, referring to Walter Reed and the National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda , Maryland.
"There's no real justification to have two of them, when they are both struggling. We need to have one at top quality," Blunt said.
In her press conference, McCaskill also referred to the talk surrounding consolidation. She believes that's one of the reasons parts of Walter Reed started to deteriorate. "You had silos of bureaucracies not speaking to each other. You had some . . . looking towards shutting it down, looking at capital costs, thinking investing more money would be a waste," McCaskill said.
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