The Senate and House of Representatives each passed bills earlier this month to address the medical backlog, strengthen the VA and increase accountability at the department.
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Directing the VA to help address mental health care workforce shortages by employing more marriage and family therapists and licensed professional mental health counselors.Increasing the cap on student loan repayments for prospective employees so the VA can better compete for skilled medical personnel.Expanding Project ARCH, a program that allows eligible rural veterans to receive care closer to home through a non-VA health care provider.The committee includes leading members of both the Senate and House of Representatives, including Tester, current Senate Veterans’ Affairs Committee Chairman Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), former chairwoman Patty Murray (D-Wash.), and House of Representatives Veterans’ Affairs Committee Chairman Jeff Miller (R-Fla.). The Congressional committee, known as a conference committee, is charged with ironing out differences between the Senate’s and House of Representatives’ VA reform bills. “That means our final bill must include new resources to hire more doctors and nurses, rebuild veterans’ trust by increasing transparency and accountability and support better access for rural veterans.” “Veterans in Montana are telling me loud and clear that they want Congress to take strong steps to improve access to care and honor our commitments to those who served,” Tester said.
SENATE) – Senator Jon Tester, tapped last week to serve on the Congressional committee hammering out a VA reform compromise bill, fought for Montana veterans’ priorities today at the panel’s first meeting. Senator: ‘Veterans demanding better access, more accountability from VA’
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