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The then-General Accounting Office (GAO) has issued reports since VA started gathering data in 2000 on veterans' wait times to be scheduled for an appointment and these GAO reports have called into question the reliability, and validity, of VA's wait time data. [20] [34] The VA Office of Inspector General (OIG) reports in 2005, 2007, and 2008 ...
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.
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VA currently has about 8.4 million veterans enrolled in its health care program. Of the remaining roughly 13 million living veterans, CBO estimates that about 8 million qualify to enroll in VA's health care program but have not enrolled. VA currently spends about $44 billion providing health care services to veterans, or about $5,200 per enrollee.
The VA has changed a great deal since 2014 after our lack of preparedness and the onslaught of demand for services created such troubling situations for our service members.
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The VA clinic is located in the foreground of this image. At approximately 3:10 p.m. MST [ 5 ] on January 6, 2015, 48-year-old Jerry Serrato, an Ohio Army National Guardsman who later served in the regular U.S. Army , shot 63-year-old Timothy Fjordbak, a psychologist who left private practice to work with military veterans in the aftermath of ...
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