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Lawmakers, territory veterans press VA to send traveling specialists to islands; VA asks for implementation details
Summary
Representatives and veterans from U.S. territories urged passage of the Territorial Response and Access to Veterans Essential Life Care Act (Bridal Act) to authorize traveling VA physicians for up to one-year assignments; VA said it supports the concept with clarifications on care coordination and bonus eligibility.
The House Subcommittee on Health heard testimony supporting the Territorial Response and Access to Veterans Essential Life Care Act (H.R. 3400), sponsorshiped by Representative King Hines, which would authorize temporary VA physician assignments to U.S. territories and possessions to address specialty care shortages.
Representative King Hines described extreme provider scarcity in the Northern Mariana Islands and called the lack of local specialists ‘‘offensive’’ to veterans who must travel to Guam, Hawaii or the mainland for…
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