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Is this a bait and switch ploy? A few weeks ago it was the VA take care of all vets, with private care controlled by the VA. Here he is saying if Vets want private care they will get it.
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Another bill being proposed involving veterans choice.
https://www.stripes.com/house-veterans-committee-chairman-takes-oversight-on-the-road-1.498835
https://www.stripes.com/house-veterans-committee-chairman-takes-oversight-on-the-road-1.498835
House Veterans committee chairman takes oversight on the road
Members of the House Committee on Veterans’ Affairs have conducted 23 visits between January and September — many of them to VA facilities accused of wrongdoing. Rep. Phil Roe has been part of about a dozen of those visits, including a three-state trip that began Friday.
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There is currently a bill in Congress that would turn all existing VA medical centers into "a government-chartered nonprofit corporation". The idea is to create a health insurance program where we can go outside the VA for health care.
http://thehill.com/blogs/congress-blog/healthcare/361514-congress-must-act-to-ensure-veterans-receive-the-care-they
http://thehill.com/blogs/congress-blog/healthcare/361514-congress-must-act-to-ensure-veterans-receive-the-care-they
Congress must act to ensure veterans receive the care they earned
The Veterans Empowerment Act will strengthen the VA by modernizing the department and freeing up the VA health system to concentrate on its original purpose: Caring for veterans with service-connected disabilities.
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Ugh. In other words, privatizing more aspects of Veteran care where it comes out of veteran pockets.
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