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VA Health Care: Issues Affecting Eligibility Reform

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Report Type Reports and Testimonies
Report Date July 19, 1995
Report No. T-HEHS-95-213
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Summary:

In this testimony GAO summarizes the results of a number of reviews that have detailed problems in administering VA's outpatient eligibility provisions; compared VA benefits and eligibility to those of other public and private health benefits programs; and assessed VA's role in a changing health care marketplace. In summary, veterans' eligibility for VA health care has evolved over time both in terms of the types of veterans eligible for care and the services they are eligible to receive. VA has gone from a system primarily covering hospital care for veterans with war- related injuries to a system covering a wide array of hospital and other medical services for both wartime and peacetime veterans and both veterans with and without service-connected disabilities. VA now has multiple categories of veterans eligibility based on a number of factors.

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