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After they hang up their uniform, our nation’s heroes have a desire to continue serving their country and fellow citizens. Allowing them to remain trapped in a broken health care system, waiting for months or driving hundreds of miles for care, keeps them from helping make America a better place.

Help us #CompleteTheMission to ensure veterans can keep access to essential care.

Veterans are being denied the care they earned through their service to our country.

The VA MISSION Act, signed into law in 2018, allows more veterans access to care from community providers. But unfortunately, the VA has put up road blocks every step of the way.

The VA consistently manipulates wait times for appointments to make them appear shorter. The department also misguides veterans about their options. This serves to keep veterans in the backlogged, bureaucratic VA system—even when veterans do know to ask schedulers and providers for community care, they are often given the runaround, persuaded against using that option, or denied altogether, despite what the law requires.

Veterans should have the freedom to make their own choices when it comes to health care providers based on what is best for their unique needs as the VA MISSION Act intended.

Veterans are promised care after serving this country in uniform. But too often, the Department of Veterans Affairs, who is tasked with delivering that care, fails.

While some veterans like the care they receive at the VA, many others experience long wait times, randomly canceled appointments, mismanaged medical records, misdiagnosed injuries, denial of necessary care, and a host of other failures.

We’re shining a light on the failures at the VA so that all Americans can call on the VA to do better.

Veterans Wait times and appointment backlogs will only grow unless the VA implements the VA MISSION Act as it was intended, allowing veterans the option to receive care through community providers. In addition to ensuring adequate network capacity to meet the needs of the veteran population, Congress should also keep a close eye on VA and community care wait times to make sure they are being calculated correctly, appointments are being completed, and veterans can get the care they need in a timely manner.

Some Members of Congress are doing their part to #completetheMISSION by introducing reforms that would build on the success of the VA MISSION Act while strengthening veterans’ ability to access care when and where they need it.

These measures, in addition to more reforms at the VA – including a full audit of VA resources and programs – put veterans at the center of their own health care and would begin to provide the freedom and choices veterans deserve.

But your elected leaders in Washington need to hear from you!