Acutely aware that its privatization plan has little support among veterans, the VA has launched a PR blitz to obscure what it’s doing.
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Inside the Administration’s Plan to Push Millions of Veterans into Private-Sector Health Care
The VA’s plan to implement the recently passed MISSION Act could seriously imperil veteran health care—and push the department even further toward privatization.
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Trump’s Under-the-Radar Push to Dismantle Veterans Health Care
New legislation threatens to dismantle the most successful American experiment in government-delivered health care.
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Privatizing Health Care for Veterans Doesn’t Add Up
Medicaid privatization in Kansas and Iowa show why outsourcing the VA would have tragic, even fatal, consequences.
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The Incoming Privatization Assault
Get ready for everything from private infrastructure and private prisons to voucherized schools and Medicaid.
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Congress Determined To Keep Private Sector In Vets’ Heath Care
Lawmakers on Capitol Hill mulling legislation to extend a program that lets veterans seek health care in the private sector have revived their longstanding complaints about long wait times for care at the Veterans Health Administration facilities. Veterans Affairs Secretary David Shulkin and Dr. Baligh Yehia, the agency’s assistant under secretary, appeared before the House […]
