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Among the study's findings were: that the care provided by the VA was generally as good as, or better than, other health-care providers (according to most criteria used in the study), and, that there was no widespread evidence of long waiting times generally in the VA (although in a few places some veterans did experience long wait times) and ...
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.
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 effort to conceal the obvious — that the VA is failing to provide timely care — prevents vets from getting referred to non-VA doctors as required. 8 years after scandal, VA is still ...
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In a New York Times editorial, Shulkin warned that "privatization is a political issue aimed at rewarding select people and companies with profits, even if it undermines care for veterans." [ 32 ] Much of the political push to privatize VA healthcare comes from the political advocacy group Concerned Veterans of America (CVA), which was backed ...
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This bill was scheduled for a vote in the House the week of May 26, 2014 in part due to on-going "allegations that several VA hospitals tried to conceal long wait times for medical care." [4] These questions about substandard timely care and false records came to light in May 2014. The situation involved treatment of veterans in a number of VA ...