U.S. Senator Jerry Moran, Ranking Member of the Senate Veterans’ Affairs Committee, spoke on the Senate Floor regarding decisions being made at the Department of Veterans Affairs that limit veterans’ access to care. He says the VA has been taking alarming actions to limit the choices the Mission Act, which the legislature voted into law last year, affords veterans in Kansas and across the Nation. Moran says the VA is working to reduce staff available to care for veterans, which he doesn’t understand:
He used an example of a Manhattan veteran with cancer that took 58 chemo treatments from a community provider, but the VA cancelled the last two treatments, asking him to go to the VA hospital in Topeka for the last two treatments. He requested other senators to get involved in pressuring the VA to continue community based treatments under the Mission Act.
