Ernst offers bill to improve veterans’ access to mental healthcare

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By Jordain Carney

Sen. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) has introduced legislation to strengthen veterans’ mental healthcare by making it easier to get help outside of the Department of Veterans Affairs.

The proposal would amend the Veterans Access, Choice, and Accountability Act, to allow veterans access to non-VA mental healthcare if they can show the agency is not giving them “adequate or timely” care.

It would also roll back a requirement that veterans must live more than 40 miles away from a VA facility or have waited longer than 30 days before accessing non-VA mental healthcare.

“There is no acceptable VA wait time for mental health care treatment for our veterans,” said Ernst, also a veteran, in a statement.

“The limits to how much suffering a veteran can endure simply cannot be accurately hire vetsmeasured by the VA or any medical professional.”

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