The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Veterans Health Administration operates the nation's largest integrated health care system, offering comprehensive high-quality health care services to meet the needs of ill and injured veterans. VA has done this by bringing together system-wide clinical expertise regarding service-connected conditions and disorders, utilizing a team approach to primary care that is veteran-centric and has a holistic view of veterans' needs to include, physical, psychosocial and economic determinants of health, and providing critical support services for family members and caregivers.
H.R. 411, the Lead by Example Act of 2023, would require that members of Congress and congressional staff receive health care from the VA, rather than through plans currently available to them as federal employees.
Consistent with DAV Resolution No. 011, DAV strongly supports H.R. 411. Requiring the leadership and lawmakers of our nation and their staff to receive health care from the VA will better enable them to judge the resource needs of the department to deliver timely, high-quality health care to our nation's veterans.
We are calling on all DAV members and supporters to contact their representatives and urge them to co-sponsor and support H.R. 411. Thank you for all you do for America's veterans and their families.