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Veteran's Affairs
According to VA.gov (2016), the Department of Veteran's Affairs has its roots in a policy passed in 1636 when soldiers at the Plymouth Colony who had fought on the war with the Pequot Indians were granted support by the colony. After independence, the policy was continued, and by 1811 the first hospital for veterans was built and funded by the federal government. The system of veteran's assistance was expanded numerous times over the course of the 19th century, and in 1917, further expansion occurred. After World War One there were three agencies that were responsible for different aspects of veteran's benefits and so in 1921 these were merged to create the Veterans' Bureau, the precursor to the modern Department of Veteran's Affairs. The VA was formally created in 1930 by President Hoover, granting it more authority than it previously had, and absorbing more divisions (VA.gov, 2016).
The medical side was the Veterans' Health Administration, which evolved from the earliest veterans' hospitals that were founded following the Civil War. The system includes a variety of hospital and veterans' homes and is the largest component of Veteran's Affairs. It is also one of the largest health care systems in the world. There are...
Prentice and Pizer (2007) note that the VA struggles with providing access to health care for veterans, as it appears to have capacity issues. The VA receives its funding from Congress, and this funding must be approved. Budgetary pressures have resulted in there being challenges with respect to obtaining adequate funding, and these have then manifested in delays in receiving care, due to capacity issues at some VA facilities. This is a chronic issue, and the VA has been working towards reducing wait times since at least 2000, before the current conflicts in the Middle East. The efforts to decrease wait times are important for the VA in terms of performance, because long wait times are positively correlated with negative outcomes, up to and including increased mortality rates.
By 2014, the wait times problem had not been addressed effectively, and a report cited that a leadership crisis was responsible. Leaders at a number of VA hospitals were accused of falsifying reports regarding wait times, in an effort to conceal wait…
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Institute of Medicine. (2013). Committee on the Assessment of Readjustment needs of military personnel, veterans and their families. The National Academy Press: Washington, DC
Kille, L. (2015). The U.S. Veterans' Affairs Department and challenges to providing care for service members: Research roundup. Journalist's Resource. In possession of the author.
Prentice, J. & Pizer, S. (2007). Delayed access to health care and mortality. Health Services Research. Vol. 42 (2) 644-662.
VA.gov (2016). About VA. Department of Veteran's Affairs. Retrieved April 25, 2016 from http://www.va.gov/about_va/vahistory.asp
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