“The fight over privatizing Veterans Affairs health care is about to escalate.”
“On Wednesday, department officials released their first public draft of new rules regarding which veterans will be eligible for private-sector medical appointments covered by taxpayer funds. The rules amount to a massive expansion of those outside care options, potentially adding more than 1 million more patients to community care programs.”
“Almost immediately, critics attacked the plan as an overreach by President Donald Trump’s administration to shift patients and funding from the federal veterans medical system to the private sector, in an attempt to undermine government backed health care…” Read the full article here.
Source: New VA health care rules: Trump overreach or more choice for vets? – By Leo Shane, January 31, 2019. MilitaryTimes.
