Suzanne Gordon, Veterans Healthcare Policy Institute

Suzanne Gordon

Suzanne Gordon is a senior policy analyst at the Veterans Healthcare Policy Institute, as well as a journalist and co-editor of a Cornell University Press series on health care work and policy issues. Her latest book, co-authored with Steve Early and Jasper Craven, is Our Veterans: Winners, Losers, Friends, and Enemies on the New Terrain of Veterans Affairs (Duke University Press). She has won a Special Recognition Award from Disabled American Veterans for her writing on veterans’ health issues, much of which has appeared in The American Prospect. Her website is www.suzannegordon.com.

Health and Social Policy

Suicide by Rental Truck: America Gets Another Violent Wake-Up Call From Vets in Distress

by Steve Early and Suzanne Gordon January 13, 2025

Twenty years of war has created tens of thousands of broken men and women.

Health and Social Policy

How Walz Can Help Harris Woo Vet Voters

by Suzanne Gordon and Steve Early September 26, 2024

And just maybe save the VA

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Is Denis McDonough a Slow Reader?

by Steve Early and Suzanne Gordon May 14, 2024

The VA secretary’s professed ignorance about a report he commissioned describing an ‘existential threat’ to his agency is alarming.

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Privatization Warning

by Steve Early and Suzanne Gordon April 11, 2024

A VA advisory panel issues a red alert on outsourcing.

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Trump’s VA Plans Look Too Much Like Biden’s VA Reality

by Steve Early and Suzanne Gordon February 19, 2024

While Project 2025 plots VA dismantling, its Biden-appointed leader tells workers to ‘stay out of politics.’

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‘$23 Billion Up for Grabs’

by Steve Early and Suzanne Gordon October 25, 2023

Joe Biden’s embrace of VA outsourcing just got worse.

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Gunning for More VA Privatization

by Suzanne Gordon and Steve Early July 11, 2023

Veterans just dodged a GOP bullet to their health system, but now they face bipartisan fire once again.

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Unhealthy Competition

by Steve Early and Suzanne Gordon April 17, 2023

How creeping privatization of health care services for military veterans is not helping patients or their caregivers.

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VA Research Verges on Breakdown Without Congressional Action

by Suzanne Gordon and Russell Lemle September 26, 2022

A reinterpretation on funding sources for VA researchers affiliated with academic institutions is imperiling irreplaceable studies of veterans’ health.