Senate VA Committee Passes Sen. Moran’s Legislation to Address Gaps in Veteran Health Care

This legislation works to create uniform access standards for care in the community to help veterans receive timely health care, remove bureaucratic barriers to care and mandate a VA telehealth strategy to incorporate and apply lessons learned during the pandemic to close the gaps in VA health care.

This legislation would close VA health care gaps by:

• Incorporating access standards for community care delivery to make certain veterans receive timely care in the community across the Community Care Network.
• Directing VA to create a telehealth strategic plan to ensure the department is deploying virtual care thoughtfully and utilizing innovative solutions to deliver telehealth to rural veterans.
• Ensuring all veterans with treatment-resistant depression have access to the necessary evidence-based care to put them on the path to recovery.
• Cutting red tape for VA research by removing the Paperwork Reduction Act requirements, ensuring veterans benefit from more timely research-informed care.
• Directing Government Accountability Office to produce a report on the Foreign Medical Program to evaluate whether the program is adequately meeting the needs of overseas veterans.