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The Veterans Community Care Program: Background and Early Effects

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The Veterans Health Administration (VHA), part of the Department of Veterans Affairs, provides health care to eligible veterans using a combination of VHA and non-VHA providers and facilities. In recent years, major changes to VHA’s policies—particularly the creation of the Veterans Community Care Program in 2018—have increased opportunities for veterans to seek community care at VHA’s expense. Since 2014, the number of veterans using community care has increased and average wait times in VHA facilities have declined and generally remained below those in the private sector.

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  • Congressional Budget Office, 2021. "The Veterans Community Care Program: Background and Early Effects," Reports 57257, Congressional Budget Office.
    • Handle: RePEc:cbo:report:57257
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    • H42 - Public Economics - - Publicly Provided Goods - - - Publicly Provided Private Goods
    • H44 - Public Economics - - Publicly Provided Goods - - - Publicly Provided Goods: Mixed Markets
    • H51 - Public Economics - - National Government Expenditures and Related Policies - - - Government Expenditures and Health
    • H56 - Public Economics - - National Government Expenditures and Related Policies - - - National Security and War
    • I13 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - Health Insurance, Public and Private
    • L24 - Industrial Organization - - Firm Objectives, Organization, and Behavior - - - Contracting Out; Joint Ventures
    • L33 - Industrial Organization - - Nonprofit Organizations and Public Enterprise - - - Comparison of Public and Private Enterprise and Nonprofit Institutions; Privatization; Contracting Out
    • N42 - Economic History - - Government, War, Law, International Relations, and Regulation - - - U.S.; Canada: 1913-

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