[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 160 (2014), Part 7]
[House]
[Page 9339]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




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               VETERANS TIMELY ACCESS TO HEALTH CARE ACT

  (Mr. DENHAM asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. DENHAM. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to discuss a new bill that has 
just been introduced, the Veterans Timely Access to Health Care Act. 
Our veterans have waited too long.
  If you have served our country and if you have gone to the VA center, 
we need to make sure you have got access to timely care. Whether it is 
primary care or urgent care, if it is beyond 7 days, you can go see a 
new doctor, and if it is beyond 14 days for specialty care, you can go 
see a new doctor at the VA's expense.
  We owe our veterans nothing less than to make sure that they have got 
world-class health care and that they have it immediately.

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