Nearly 50,000 veterans have already used a little known emergency suicide crisis benefit that allows eligible veterans and some former service members to walk into any VA or community emergency room and receive VA funded care, even if they are not enrolled in VA health care. The benefit comes through the COMPACT Act, a law signed during President Trump’s first term that was meant to cut through the usual paperwork swamp when a veteran is standin…
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