Assuring Adequate Veterans Health Funding
Simon&Co. worked with veterans’ services organizations under the leadership of the Disabled American Veterans to propose an alternative funding mechanism for veterans’ health. Simon&Co. recommended changing the Department of Veterans Affairs healthcare budget to an advance appropriation, providing veterans health funding for two years and allowing timely health systems planning. This approach was adopted into law by the passage of the Veterans’ Health Care Budget Reform and Transparency Act in 2009, as President Obama called it, “the most significant legislative victory for veterans in a generation.”