VA Health Care Funding Bill supported by the American Legion, Veteran's of Foreign Wars, and Disabled American Veterans organizations.

Issue: Make VA health care funding mandatory, on a cost per enrolled veteran basis, with greater authority to bill and collect from third party insurers, including Medicare.

The bill would change the funding of the VA health care system from discretionary to mandatory spending by establishing a base funding year and calculating the average cost of a veteran using the VA's health care system. This would be indexed annually for inflation

The advantage of making veterans health spending mandatory is that the yearly appropriations battle of trying to find additional resources to meet the VA's needs will end. Instead, a formula based on the cost of serving the eligible veterans who participate in the VA health care system would be used to set funding.