VA Treating "non-veterans" makes the news

If you read the headline going around in emails, these are the "non-veterans" the VA is talking about. By the way, I am one of the "CHAMPVA" non-veterans getting care covered by the VA but not from the VA.

VA Patients (Non-veterans): The VA also provides health care services to certain non-veteran patients, including “active duty military and reserve, spousal collateral, consultations and instruction, CHAMPVA workload, reimbursable workload with affiliates, humanitarian care, and employees receiving occupational immunizations such as Hepatitis A and B and flu vaccinations.”8

Table 1 provides the total veteran population, VA-enrolled veterans, and VA patients (including both veteran and non-veteran patients) for each year from FY2001 through FY2014. These data allow several observations, including the following:

• The total veteran population has decreased by 17% from FY2001 to FY2014.
• The VA-enrolled veteran population has increased by 78% from FY2001 to FY2014.
• As a proportion of the total veteran population, the VA-enrolled veterans have increased from 20% in FY2001 to 42% in FY2014.
• Since FY2003, 63%–65% of VA enrolled veterans have used VA health care each year. (In FY2001, 76% of enrolled veterans used VA health care, but this is anomalous within the time period. In FY2002 it was 69%.)
• The number of non-veteran VA patients has increased faster than the number of veteran patients; as of FY2014, non-veteran patients represent 11% of all VA patients.