At the end of last week, U.S. Rep. Dan Webster, R-Fla., showcased his support of U.S. Rep. Ryan Zinke’s, R-Mont., “Protecting Veteran Community Care Act.”
The bill “ provides veterans with easier, quicker, and better access to mental healthcare by ensuring the VA is granting such services in their local communities” and “strengthens the existing community care program, limits the VA’s ability to restrict access to care in the community, and requires the VA to track relevant community care data and provide those statistics to Congress.”
Webster weighed in on the bill which Zinke introduced two weeks ago. More than a dozen House members, including U.S. Reps. Donald Davis, D-NC, Anna Paulina Luna, R-Fla., and Chip Roy, R-Texas, are also co-sponsoring the bill
“Many of our returning veterans carry with them invisible wounds sustained in the service of our country,” said Webster. “This important legislation ensures that our brave heroes have the access to the care they need, the benefits they earned, and the opportunities they deserve. We owe them a debt we can never repay.”
The bill is before the U.S. House Veterans Affairs Committee.
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