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      "date": "2005-01-14",
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      "title": "Veterans' Medical Care Funding: FY1995-FY2004",
      "summary": "The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) provides services and benefits such as hospital and\nmedical care, rehabilitation services, and pensions, among other things, to veterans who meet certain\neligibility criteria. VA provides these benefits and services through four administrative units: the\nVeterans Health Administration (VHA), the Veterans Benefits Administration (VBA), the National\nCemetery Administration (NCA), and the Board of Veterans\u2019 Appeals. VHA is primarily\na direct\nservice provider of primary care, specialized care, and related medical and social support services\nto veterans through an integrated health care system.\n \n Funding for VHA is an issue of perennial interest to Congress, especially with the increasing\ndemand for VA medical services and with some veterans increasingly having to wait more than six\nmonths for a primary care or speciality care appointment. VHA is funded through multiple\nappropriation accounts, which are supplemented by other sources of revenue. Over the past decade,\nthe composition of VHA\u2019s funding has changed. Not only has VA\u2019s appropriation\naccount structure\nbeen modified, but also VA\u2019s ability to retain nonappropriated funds has increased. These\nchanges\npresent challenges in comparing VHA funding over a period of time.\n \n Between FY1995 and FY2004, appropriations for VA medical care grew by 63%. For the first\nfour years of this time period, from FY1995 through FY1999, appropriations for VA medical care\ngrew by 6.7%, from $16.2 billion in FY1995 to $17.3 billion in FY1999. In comparison, during the\nlast five years of this time period, from FY1999 through FY2004, VA medical care appropriations\ngrew by 52.7%, from $17.3 billion in FY1999 to $26.4 billion in FY2004. These amounts do not\ninclude appropriations for medical research, medical administration and miscellaneous operating\nexpenses (MAMOE), and funds from nonappropriated funding sources.\n \n The total number of veteran enrollees has grown by 76.9% from FY1999, the first year VHA\ninstituted an enrollment system, to FY2004. During this same period the number of veterans\nreceiving medical care has grown by almost 50%, from 3.2 million veterans in FY1999 to an\nestimated 4.7 million veterans in FY2004.\n \n This report will not be updated.",
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    "Appropriations",
    "Health Policy"
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