Protect the VA MISSION Act

The MISSION Act is currently being threatened

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Dear Official

This year marks six years since President Trump signed the VA MISSION Act into law. Today, the Biden Administration and senators like SVAC leader Jon Tester are empowering leaders at the VA to undermine and obscure the law, keeping veterans that need timely and quality care for everything from routine checkups to critical physical and mental health appointments trapped in a system that can demand they wait months or travel hundreds of miles even if a provider up the road from them could help.

Our nation's veterans shouldn't be forced to wait or choose to decline to pursue health care because of a lack of options. Congress must hold VA leadership to the letter of the law, ensure veterans have clear access standards for community care, and demand that President Biden and Senator Tester honor the VA MISSION Act - it's the law.
This year marks six years since President Trump signed the VA MISSION Act into law. Today, the Biden Administration and senators like SVAC leader Jon Tester are empowering leaders at the VA to undermine and obscure the law, keeping veterans that need timely and quality care for everything from routine checkups to critical physical and mental health appointments trapped in a system that can demand they wait months or travel hundreds of miles even if a provider up the road from them could help.

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In 2018, the VA MISSION Act was signed into law by President Trump, and it is arguably the most important veterans' health care legislation in a generation. The MISSION Act expanded health care choice options for veterans, making it easier for millions of veterans to get timely and quality medical care, whether at the VA or from a regular health care provider in their communities.

Yet despite the passing of the VA MISSION Act in 2018, veterans continue to face challenges. The VA has consistently failed to fully implement the law. Instead of veterans having the option to seek care from local providers, they're often stuck with multi-month wait times, asked to drive hundreds of miles out of state to other VA facilities, or denied urgent mental health care. The VA rarely tells veterans about their community care eligibility.

President Biden's VA, with support from politicians like the Senate Veterans Affairs Committee leader Jon Tester, is working overtime to undermine the spirit of the MISSION Act every day. They would prefer that veterans stay trapped in this broken system to justify the bloated VA budget.

On the anniversary of the MISSION Act, we should remember that the VA's mission is to serve veterans by getting them access to the treatment they need, not looking out for its own bureaucratic interests. The VA should be expanding veterans' health care options, especially for mental health treatment, not shrinking them.

It's long past time for Biden and Tester to get out of the way so America's veterans can access the timely and quality care they have earned. Sign this letter now to demand Congress works to hold the VA to the law. Veterans' lives depend on it.