A Veteran Card promises healthcare, but who checks whether veterans can actually receive it?

Dear Editor,

A Veteran Card can say you are entitled to healthcare. That does not mean you can actually get it.

Evidence before a current Senate inquiry raises problems with finding DVA providers, travel approvals and treatment renewals.

DVA says more than 99 per cent of electronic provider payments are processed within target. Good. But that measures paperwork, not whether a veteran got through the consulting-room door.

Senators should ask a simple question:
Does DVA measure the healthcare veterans actually receive, or just how efficiently it processes the system?

A promise on a card is not healthcare.

I expand on this at markcroxford.net/read

Mark Croxford
Founder, Veterans Count
20-year Navy veteran, and
former media and political adviser to a Minister for Veterans’ Affairs and Minister for Defence Personnel

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