Author
Health; RAND
Year
2016
Publisher
RAND Corporation
Language
English
Pages
3
Last Update
02-Oct-2025
Keywords
Health Sciences
U.S. veterans represent a special population of men and women who have served their country, many facing extraordinary health risks during their deployments. Because many veterans have served on overseas missions, including combat, veterans with service-connected health issues are a clinically complex and potentially vulnerable population. The mission of the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) health care system is to meet the health care needs of this population.
However, in recent years VA has faced increasing concerns about veterans’ access to care and the quality of care delivered. In February 2014, in a widely publicized episode, a retired VA physician...
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