House Approves Bill to Expand Veterans’ Access to Care

The New York Times: WASHINGTON — The House on Wednesday overwhelmingly approved legislation to expand veterans’ access to health care, acting on bipartisan outrage over long waiting lists, falsified reports of health care improvement and a crush of new patients from the wars ending in Iraq and Afghanistan.

The 420-to-5 vote sends the bill to the Senate, where final passage is all but assured before Congress leaves Friday for a five-week summer recess. President Obama has promised to sign it.

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