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Article: Funding shortages hamper VA health care.(Legislative Update)
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- DAV Magazine
- Article date:
- March 1, 2007
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It's almost like watching a glass fall to the floor in slow motion," National Legislative Director Joseph A. Violante said about problems with the VA's budget.
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"Chronic under-funding and delays in completing the VA's regular appropriation threaten to erode the availability of health care to our nation's veterans," he said. "And with more and more patients returning from Iraq and Afghanistan, the VA is in danger of being overwhelmed."
More than 200,000 veterans from Iraq and Afghanistan already have been treated at VA medical facilities around the nation, many more than the VA had projected. Meanwhile, the number of ...