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19 July 2022

Stars and Stripes | Republican senators pushed VA to follow Mission Act guidelines for community care

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Nine Republican senators have written a letter to Department of Veterans Affairs Secretary Denis McDonough urging the agency fulfill its promise to provide health care to veterans in a timely manner based on guidelines in the Mission Act.

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"Veterans across the country are subject to unacceptably long waiting periods to receive care or have appointments continually rescheduled because the Department of Veterans Affairs refuses to follow guidance and statute created by the Mission Act," according to the letter dated Thursday. "Veterans deserve access to quality health care and the VA's failure to do so and willful disregard for established standards is unacceptable.”

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