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        <text><![CDATA[ <p>Veterans Health Care Empowerment Act of 2007 - Allows any veteran with a service-connected disability to receive hospital care or medical services for any condition at any hospital or medical facility or from any medical provider eligible to receive payments under either Medicare or the TRICARE program (a Department of Defense [DOD] managed health care program). Requires the cost of such care and services to be borne by the United States.</p>]]></text>
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