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Derrick Van Orden: “Within like 45 minutes you're supposed to go to the VA. If…”

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

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'We're Not Putting Up With That': Derrick Van Orden Dings VA Official For Late Testimony Submission

Published | Video Starts at 01:39

But here's what I hear from my veterans. The bureaucracy at the VA tries to slow roll community care. And one of the things that they've come up with is very innovative. You know, Within like 45 minutes you're supposed to go to the VA. If you're outside of the 45 minutes, they've created all these seapocks everywhere so that more and more people are within this 45 minute radius, so then they don't have to be referred to community care. And we're talking about it's 1, 2, 3, 6, it's 1 with 12 zeros after it is what we're talking about. (01:39–01:56)

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Asserts that the VA has created CPOX to keep veterans within a 45-minute radius to avoid community care referrals.

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