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Joe Manchin: “There is a fundamental debate around the third-party administrators, and one argument in the VA is--one argument is that…”

On the recordJuly 10, 2017
There is a fundamental debate around the third-party administrators, and one argument in the VA is--one argument is that the VA cannot handle the task of scheduling and administering a non-VA care program, so the private sector has got to step in.
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Joe Manchin
Democratic · West Virginia

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Manchin discusses the debate over third-party administrators in VA healthcare.

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