Section 1 Short title
This Act may be cited as the “Parity in Veterans Health Care Rights Act”.
Parity in Veterans Health Care Rights Act
A BILL
To amend title 38, United States Code, to provide benefits from the Department of Veterans Affairs for persons disabled by treatment under the Veterans Community Care Program, and for other purposes.
Sec. 2 Benefits for persons disabled by treatment under Veterans Community Care Program
Subsection (a) of section 1151 of title 38, United States Code, is amended—
by redesignating paragraph (2) as paragraph (3);
in paragraph (1)(B), by striking “or” at the end; and
by inserting after paragraph (1) the following new paragraph (2):
“(2) the disability or death was caused by hospital care, a medical service, or an extended care service furnished the veteran by a non-Department provider under section 1703 of this title and the proximate cause of the disability or death was—
“(A) carelessness, negligence, lack of proper skill, error in judgment, or similar instance of fault on the part of the provider in furnishing the hospital care, medical or surgical treatment, or examination; or
“(B) an event not reasonably foreseeable; or”