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Guaranteed funding for veterans health care has been a key legislative priority for DAV over the last six years. As a result of our grassroots advocacy and the many efforts of individual DAV members we were finally able to secure hearings in both the House and Senate Veterans Affairs Committees on October 3, 2007, and July 25, 2007 respectively. DAV’s National Legislative Director Joseph A. Violante was asked to testify at both hearings on behalf of the Partnership for Veterans Health Care Budget Reform.
Below are the testimonies and full transcripts from each of the hearings. We encourage you to read these documents to gain a better understanding of the issue and where we stand at this juncture. We make clear in the statements to the Committee why funding problems persist and how Congress can solve this issue by enacting a reform that results in sufficiency, predictability and timeliness of VA health care funding. Although Congress does not appear willing to take action on this issue at this time these hearings represent the beginning of a long-awaited dialogue.
We want to thank all of our members for their hard work and continued efforts on this difficult issue. DAV is currently working with budget experts to examine alternative possibilities to resolve the VA health funding issue based on the congressional responses during the hearing. Our goal is to ensure that veterans using the VA health care system have timely access to high quality health care services now and in the future.
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