<Li> Passed the Senate on June 11, 2014 (Roll Call Vote 187: 93 - 3) </Li> <Li> Signed into law by President Barack Obama on August 7, 2014 </Li> <P> The Veterans' Access to Care through Choice, Accountability, and Transparency Act of 2014 (H.R. 3230; Pub. L. 113--146), also known as the Veterans Choice Act, is a United States public law that is intended to address the ongoing Veterans Health Administration scandal of 2014 . The law will expand the number of options veterans have for receiving care and grant the United States Secretary of Veterans Affairs more power to fire senior executives . The Veterans Health Administration scandal of 2014 began with the discovery that there was on - going systematic lying by the Veterans Health Administration about the wait times veterans experienced waiting to be seen by doctors . By June 5, 2014, Veterans Affairs internal investigations had identified a total of 35 veterans who had died while waiting for care in the Phoenix VHA system . Another audit determined that "more than 57,000 veterans waited at least 90 days to see a doctor, while another 63,000 over the last decade never received an initial appointment ." </P> <P> The bill was introduced into the United States House of Representatives during the 113th United States Congress under the name "Pay Our Guard and Reserve Act" as one of the October 2013 mini-continuing resolutions passed by the House during the United States federal government shutdown of 2013 . It became law on August 7, 2014 . </P>

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