The Veterans Health Administration's medical-care dollars, traced to the source.

Veterans Health Administration · Department of Veterans Affairs

VHA runs the largest integrated health system in the country. Its money is four discretionary appropriations — Medical Care — funded a full year ahead by advance appropriation so care never lapses. This monitor keeps those accounts reconciled to the dollar against the VA Budget-in-Brief, and surfaces the one thing moving underneath a flat topline: private-sector community care is surging.