The COVID-19 pandemic has led to the cancellation, delay or rescheduling of almost 20 million medical appointments for veterans.
Part of that is a result of many Veterans Affairs medical facilities being fully or partially shut down because of the pandemic. But that’s only half the story.
For those who can’t get care at a VA facility, community care under the VA MISSION Act should be an alternative. It isn’t working out that way.
The entire Massachusetts congressional delegation wrote to VA Secretary Denis McDonourecgh last month to protest “reports of veterans being asked to travel to Connecticut, New Hampshire and Rhode Island for appointments, including a veteran with Multiple Sclerosis who had to drive 210 miles round trip in a blizzard to an appointment in Connecticut.”
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The Washington DC VA Medical Center is trying to reopen its troubled mammography program. The flagship hospital of the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs has.
By NIKKI WENTLING | STARS AND STRIPES Published: February 11, 2021
Stars and Stripes is making stories on the coronavirus pandemic available free of charge. See other free reports here. Sign up for our daily coronavirus newsletter here. Please support our journalism with a subscription. WASHINGTON The House Committee on Veterans’ Affairs advanced a proposal Thursday that would allot more than $15 billion to the Department of Veterans Affairs under President Joe Biden’s coronavirus relief plan. Biden’s plan, which he’s titled the American Rescue Plan, totals $1.9 trillion and aims to help Americans affected by the economic fallout of the coronavirus pandemic. It includes stimulus checks for many Americans and aid for the unemployed and hungry. If approved, it would add to the $3 trillion coronavirus relief bill approved in March and the $900 billion bill from December.