One Voice: The Veterans Access, Choice and Accountability Act of 2014

According to Military.com, “The Choice plan is supposed to be open to patients who live more than 40 miles from a VA hospital or clinic or who have been told they would have to wait more than 30 days for VA care.

As of April 1, there were nearly 432,000 appointments pending in the VA's scheduling system involving a wait that long.

VA leaders have previously acknowledged that few vets were successfully using the Choice program, but the new statistic came as a surprise -- as of mid-March, officials were saying that more than 45,000 appointments had been completed and that participation had been rising.”  

They went on to say,”The VA has already announced plans to loosen one important eligibility rule and an analysis is underway to pinpoint why utilization has been low.”

The rule they are questioning is the forty miles a crow can fly.

No Kidding, it really states,“forty...

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