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Derrick Van Orden: “The Veterans Administration bureaucracy is not paying enough…”

Featuring: Derrick Van Orden, Republican | U.S. House, Wisconsin, District 3

WEB Extra: Rep. Van Orden on his first days in Congress

Published January 9, 2023 | Video Starts at 06:53

So that's a big issue we have. We're a rural district, so they've been messing about a bit with this community care programs. So The Veterans Administration bureaucracy is not paying enough money to dentists. So dentists are stopping taking VA. And that's not all right. I want to expand the ability for veterans to get rural health care so that they don't have to drive three hours to Tilburn. (06:53–07:01)

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Asserts that VA's insufficient payments are causing dentists to stop accepting VA patients.

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