Excerpt from Veteran Access to Va Outpatient Care and Related Issues: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations of the Committee on Veterans' Affairs, House of Representatives, One Hundred Third Congress, First Session; July 21, 1993; Serial No. 103-22 In summary, Mr. Chairman, it is our feeling that veterans are too Often being made to feel like they are participating in a health care lottery where their chances of receiving care are heavily de pendent ou which center they visit, which physician examines them, or which day of the year they need care. As a result, veter ans are understandably confused and frustrated about whether they will receive care when they need it. Physicians, we found, are also uncomfortable with the current system. They continually have to decide whether to deny care to veterans before determining how best to meet veterans' needs. Too often, physicians are required to judge without adequate guidance whether a veteran's condition will, if left untreated, deteriorate and result in hospitalization. This places physicians in a very tough spot - relying on subjective judgments to make difficult eligibility decisions or ignoring statutory requirements in order to serve vet erans' needs. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.