Republicans argue that VA is a bloated bureaucracy that is making a concerted effort to prevent veterans from accessing community care and forcing them to stick with the VA system to curb costs.

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The real goal, he says, is providing supplements and alternatives to the VA’s “broken bureaucracy.” Collins is scheduled for a Senate confirmation hearing on January 14. That session will ...