Texas veterans brace for new system of outsourced care

Texas U.S. Rep. Colin Allred, a first-term member of the Veterans Affairs Committee, says he's been hearing from some of the 1.6 million veterans in Texas about "a back-door effort to privatize" the veterans' agency.

"There is a danger here that we can siphon off necessary resources from our VA health care centers, and also not drive the VA to do the things they need to be doing if we shift too many of the resources to community care," said Allred, D-Dallas.