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On April 19, 2017, President Donald Trump signed a bill into law extending the act and expanding the eligibility for the program, where veterans are given the option for a private doctor if their VA wait is only 20 days (28 for specialty care) or their drive is only 30 minutes.(Pub. L. 115–26 (text), 131 Stat. 129). [27]
In reality, President Barack Obama was the president who signed the program into law in 2014. The law Trump signed in 2018, the VA MISSION Act, expanded the Veterans Choice program but didn’t ...
“During Trump’s first term, the VA Mission Act aimed to expand veterans’ access to private healthcare, reducing the dependency on VA facilities by allowing veterans to seek care in the ...
The Veterans Choice program was actually signed into law in 2014 by his predecessor, President Barack Obama. Trump signed a law in 2018, the VA MISSION Act, that expanded and modified the program ...
The Veterans Choice program enables eligible veterans to receive government funding for healthcare provided outside the VA system. In 2018, Trump signed the VA MISSION Act to expand the eligibility criteria. Over the next two years, Trump falsely claimed over 150 times that he had created the Veterans Choice program itself.
The Veteran Access to Care Act of 2014 is a bill that would allow United States veterans to receive their healthcare from non-VA facilities under certain conditions. [1] [2] The bill is a response to the Veterans Health Administration scandal of 2014, in which it was discovered that there was systematic lying about the wait times veterans experienced waiting to be seen by doctors.
Veterans will also be watching Trump's cabinet picks, including who he taps to lead the U.S. Department of Defense and the Department of Veterans Affairs, which respectively lead the world's most ...
He has also taken credit — wrongly — for first passing a private sector health care program, Veterans Choice, that was initially enacted during the administration of former President Barack Obama.