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Moving more than $390 million inside the VA budget to fund care for veterans outside the VA system; Deploying mobile VA medical units; Ending the goal of providing appointments within the 14-day window that Nabors criticized as unrealistic and said may have "incentivized inappropriate actions"; Posting twice-monthly public updates of VA wait times;
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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Upon the return of veterans from Iraq and Afghanistan, war-related medical care needs ballooned in a system that was already stressed by the needs of Vietnam and Gulf War veterans. The VA was not ...
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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.
In fact, the overall number of veterans using VA care since 2021 has dropped by more than 62,000. This includes estimates for 2025 with PACT Act expected to only increase costs by 0.4 percent.
By the end of Secretary McDonald's tenure, Veterans at all VA Medical Centers had access to same-day services in primary care and mental health care. [39] In November 2016, nearly 97 percent of Veteran appointments were being completed within 30 days of the clinically indicated or Veteran's preferred date [ 40 ] and 85 percent were being ...