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The Department of Veterans Affairs is preparing in case it needs to take on its little-known role as the nation’s backup health-care system, a job that gained urgency when a national emergency was declared over the coronavirus pandemic

The Department of Veterans Affairs is preparing in case it has to take on its little-known role as the nation’s health-care system of last resort, a possible job that gained urgency last week when President Trump declared a national emergency over the new coronavirus pandemic.

“With the President’s declaration of a national emergency today, VA’s health care surge capabilities could be used to fill gaps in civilian health care systems, when necessary,” the Department of Veterans Affairs wrote to Congress last Friday, in a letter...

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