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Improving Veterans’ Health by Expanding VA Community Care
…expand telehealth access in rural communities and increased opportunities to receive needed treatment such as urgent care and vaccinations closer to home. In response to the pandemic, Congress passed legislation…
Legislative Webinars
…DAV Legislative Update, April 17, 2025 By National Legislative Staff Preparing Resolutions for Department Conventions, April 3, 2025 By Jon Retzer, Deputy National Legislative Director of Health Predatory Claims Legislation,…
Bringing the fight to a new decade
…the culture at the VA. While we were pleased to see forward momentum of this important legislation, we will need to continue our advocacy efforts in the Senate to get…
VA MISSION Act update
Where the law stands one year later The VA MISSION Act—historic legislation aimed at expanding access to and improving the quality of care for veterans—went into effect in June 2019….
The winds of change
…P. Roe, M.D. Veterans Health Care and Benefits Improvement Act of 2020. That DAV-backed legislation became Public Law 116-315 this past January. Specifically, the law requires the VA secretary to…
Blue Water Navy VA Claims Under Review, Following Court Order
…of critical legislation in 2019 that entitled these sailors, known as Blue Water Navy veterans, to overdue veterans benefits, including compensation and health care. Affected veterans whose claims were rejected…
DAV Mourns Passing of Sen. Harry Reid
…The former Senate Majority Leader retired in 2016, having served as a long-time and influential supporter of critical veterans legislation during his five terms in the Senate. In 2007 and…
A seamless path to VA healthcare
…supports the proposed legislation but signaled some potential difficulties executing its intent. “There may be challenges implementing this bill as drafted,” the administration wrote in a statement of policy, but…
DAV mourns loss of past executive director
…Department of Veterans Affairs. Shortly after his appointment as executive director, Augustine successfully led a DAV campaign supporting legislation that provided advance appropriations for veterans benefits payments, which was signed…
DAV statement on Senate agreement on Honoring our PACT Act
…to support this long overdue legislation. DAV and a coalition of veterans organizations have worked for years to develop and pass comprehensive military toxic exposure legislation to ensure every generation…
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