While Project 2025 plots VA dismantling, its Biden-appointed leader tells workers to ‘stay out of politics.’
Steve Early
Steve Early is a longtime journalist and health care reform advocate. He is the co-author, with Suzanne Gordon and Jasper Craven, of Our Veterans: Winners, Losers, Friends, and Enemies on the New Terrain of Veterans Affairs (Duke University Press).
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‘$23 Billion Up for Grabs’
Joe Biden’s embrace of VA outsourcing just got worse.
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Gunning for More VA Privatization
Veterans just dodged a GOP bullet to their health system, but now they face bipartisan fire once again.
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Unhealthy Competition
How creeping privatization of health care services for military veterans is not helping patients or their caregivers.
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Congress and the VA MISSION Act
Buyer’s remorse or full speed ahead?
Posted inCabinet Watch
Will Biden’s Surprise VA Pick Halt the Slide Toward Privatization?
Denis McDonough has a choice: continue the outsourcing of the VA health system, or rebuild its in-house capacity.
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Vets and VA Workers Are MIA From Biden Transition
In planning the future of veterans’ services, members of veterans’ groups are nowhere to be seen.
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Under Trump’s Presidency, Military Veterans and Service Members Have Been ‘Losers’
Putting Trump’s words aside, his actions have shown a disregard for the health and welfare of military families.
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Solidarity Sometimes
Coalitions across the Class Divide: Lessons from the Labor, Peace, and Environmental Movements, by Fred Rose. Cornell University Press, 253 pages, $17.95. Taking History to Heart: The Power of the Past in Building Social Movements, by James Green. University of Massachusetts Press, 352 pages, $19.95. In May of 1970, hundreds of flag-waving New York City […]