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Mike Rounds: “If you want it equal to the services being provided inside of a VA facility versus outside of a VA facility, what I am…”

On the recordMarch 14, 2016
If you want it equal to the services being provided inside of a VA facility versus outside of a VA facility, what I am proposing under our proposed legislation is that the deductible will also become the responsibility of the primary provider, which is the VA.
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Mike Rounds
Republican · South Dakota

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Rounds discusses legislation to shift deductible responsibility to the VA for veterans.

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