Tell VA Secretary Doug Collins to Support Veterans

Secretary Collins MUST support the Take Care of America's Veterans Act!

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Dear Secretary Collins

As an American, I urge you to support the Take Care of America’s Veterans Act (H.R. 9237 / S. 4744).

As you know America’s veterans have sacrificed in service to our country. They deserve timely, high-quality healthcare and the freedom to access the care that best meets their needs. Unfortunately, too many veterans still face unnecessary delays, confusing bureaucracy, and barriers to using community care options they have already earned.

The Take Care of America’s Veterans Act would help ensure that the promise of veterans’ healthcare choice becomes a reality in everyday practice.

This legislation would protect access to community care, require the VA to inform eligible veterans when they qualify for those options, and ensure veterans understand why a referral may have been denied and how to appeal. Veterans should not have to fight the system just to learn what care they are allowed to receive.

The bill would also bring needed accountability to VA wait times. The clock should start when a veteran requests care, not when paperwork is entered into a system. The VA should not be able to reset wait times by canceling and rescheduling appointments. Veterans deserve honest standards and transparent access to care.

I also support the bill’s efforts to modernize the VA experience through an online self-service portal, improve access to urgent inpatient mental health care, encourage innovation in care delivery, and strengthen independent oversight of the Veterans Health Administration.

This bill updates several ratings’ criteria to reflect modern medicine while preserving existing benefits for current recipients.

Veterans should never have to choose between waiting for care and getting the care that best meets their needs. Congress has an opportunity to strengthen veterans’ healthcare choice, improve accountability, and help the VA better serve the men and women who served our country.

Please support and work with Congress to help pass the Take Care of America’s Veterans Act.
As an American, I urge you to support the Take Care of America’s Veterans Act (H.R. 9237 / S. 4744).

Respectfully

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Veterans deserve timely care, real choice, and a VA that works for them. America’s veterans kept their commitment to our country. Now Congress must keep its commitment to them.

Too often, veterans face unnecessary bureaucracy, confusing referral processes, and long waits for the care they earned in the line of duty. The VA MISSION Act was supposed to give veterans greater access to care, including the ability to seek care in their local communities when the VA cannot meet their needs in a timely way. But years of bureaucratic barriers have made it harder for too many veterans to use those options.

The Take Care of America’s Veterans Act would help fix that.

This legislation protects veterans’ healthcare choice, improves transparency, holds the VA accountable for accurate wait times, modernizes the veteran experience, strengthens access to mental health care, and encourages innovation across the VA health system.

Veterans should never have to choose between waiting for care and getting the care that best meets their needs. Urge your lawmakers to support and pass the Take Care of America’s Veterans Act.