Veterans Health Care Full Funding Act

Veterans Health Care Full Funding Act

The Veteran’s Health Care Full Funding Act is an initiative aimed to provide additional funding to ensure adequate funding for veterans health care programs of the Department of Veteran’s Affairs to establish standards of Veteran Affairs, and for other purposes. As an honored servant of this nation transitioning from over 20 years of active duty service, I am most definitely interested in the continuum of care post my military career.

There are several roles recommended in this bill. Guidelines require that the President’s annual fiscal year budget includes designated funds to being requested for veterans health care programs for each two-fiscal year periods and the Veterans Health Care Funding Review Board to determine the level of funding needed for each period.

A Review Board, appointed by the House, is responsible for briefing the President or his designee of the level of funding necessary for each fiscal year and will annotate it to the Federal Register annually by November 1 of the previous year. The Review Board will determine its recommendations based on the economic assumption of the VA health care programs of the preceding year. The Director of the Office of Management and Budget is to provide information on the economic assumption to the Board. Funding for the Board is to be included in the amount presented in the fiscal estimate.

Cognizant of the times, the demand for VA health care is at an all time high. Many of those eligible and in need of VA services are younger and their needs extensive, resulting in the need to fortify the entire Department of Veterans Affairs’ system. The Veterans Health Care Full Funding Act is an attempt to meet those needs. This Act is a form of preparation to accommodate the needs of veterans by accounting for the influx of beneficiaries by meeting the needs of personnel with service connected injuries, providing them with timely services and improving the conditions of the physical structures where care will be provided.

If passed, the Veterans Health care Full Funding Act would be counted as a victory for the American Veterans (AMVETS). This agency has committed itself to be a liaison between the veteran (to include the family) and the government. AMVETS’ Commander, Tom Mc Griff, stood before the House earlier in 2007 and fought in defense of this Act. He explained why veterans needed this funding; detailing the increase needs of specialty care and full service access expressing that AMVETS would not rest until its approval.

Another interested party would include the Disabled American Veterans, who encourages funding from Congress to assist the Department of Veterans Affairs from outsourcing the specialty