VA Health Care: Issues Affecting Eligibility Reform (Testimony, 07/19/95,
GAO/T-HEHS-95-213).

In this testimony GAO summarizes the results of a number of reviews that
have detailed problems in administering VA's outpatient eligibility
provisions; compared VA benefits and eligibility to those of other
public and private health benefits programs; and assessed VA's role in a
changing health care marketplace. In summary, veterans' eligibility for
VA health care has evolved over time both in terms of the types of
veterans eligible for care and the services they are eligible to
receive. VA has gone from a system primarily covering hospital care for
veterans with war- related injuries to a system covering a wide array of
hospital and other medical services for both wartime and peacetime
veterans and both veterans with and without service-connected
disabilities. VA now has multiple categories of veterans eligibility
based on a number of factors.

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 REPORTNUM:  T-HEHS-95-213
     TITLE:  VA Health Care: Issues Affecting Eligibility Reform
      DATE:  07/19/95
   SUBJECT:  Health care facilities
             Veterans
             Health care services
             Eligibility criteria
             Disability benefits
             Health insurance
             Cost sharing (finance)
             Eligibility determinations
             Comparative analysis
IDENTIFIER:  Medicare Trust Fund
             
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