U.S. SENATE - Senate Veteransâ Affairs Committee Chairman Jon Tester (D-Mont.), U.S. Senator John Boozman (R-Ark.), Senate Veteransâ Affairs Committee Ranking Member Jerry Moran (R-Kan.) and U.S. Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) announced Monday via press release that they will introduce bipartisan legislation to expand COVID-19 vaccine eligibility to veterans and their families under the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA).
The Senatorsâ Strengthening and Amplifying Vaccination Efforts to Locally Immunize all Veterans and Every Spouse (SAVE LIVES) Act would allow VA to provide no-cost COVID vaccination services to all veterans, veteran spouses, caregivers and Civilian Health and Medical Program of the Department of Veterans Affairs (CHAMPVA) recipients to the extent that such vaccines are available. The legislation also urges the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to adjust VAâs vaccine allocation based on this increased eligibility pool, as much a
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Vern Buchanan co-sponsors bill to expand COVID-19 vaccine access for veterans
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Lawmakers Want to Make All Vets, Some Caregivers Eligible for VA COVID-19 Vaccines
U.S. Army Spc. Carlos Hernandez, a combat medic specialist with 2nd Squadron, 1st Cavalry Regiment, administers a vaccine against COVD-19 to Kenneth Grindley, a 95-year-old World War II Army veteran, on California State University, Los Angeles, Feb. 19, 2021. (Simone Lara/U.S. Army National Guard)
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When Vietnam veteran Donald Snyder heard his local Department of Veterans Affairs hospital was offering coronavirus vaccines to vets 65 and older, he immediately called to make an appointment. But Snyder, who does not get health care through the VA because he does not meet its eligibility criteria, was turned down.