Exams to determine whether veterans qualify for certain benefits have been almost entirely privatized, and the companies conducting the exams have long been cited for poor quality.
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Posted inEducation in America
Breaking the Public Schools
Red states are enacting universal education vouchers, threatening budget calamity and potentially degrading student achievement.
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
Saving Wisconsin’s Publicly Owned Nursing Homes
In Wisconsin, where many nursing homes are county-owned and locally prized, an emblematic privatization battle illustrates the latent progressivism of rural people.
Posted inEnergy and the Environment
NOAA’s Crossfire Hurricane
Project 2025 shows that Republicans can’t take heat—so they’d try to blow up the kitchen if they get the chance.
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
How Walz Can Help Harris Woo Vet Voters
And just maybe save the VA
Posted inEducation in America
Navient Kicked Out of Student Loan System That It Already Left
The company was a bad student loan servicer; so are its successors. The problem is that private servicers can’t make a profit without harming borrowers.
Posted inEducation in America
For-Profit College Students Sue MOHELA for Not Delivering Promised Debt Forgiveness
Kamala Harris has touted debt cancellation for defrauded students. But two years after cancellations were announced, some borrowers are still being harassed for payment.
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
Medicare Advantage’s $64 Billion Supplemental Benefits Slush Fund
Medicare spends huge sums financing the dental, vision, and other benefits offered by Medicare Advantage plans. A new government report sounds the alert about their potential misuse.
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
Is Denis McDonough a Slow Reader?
The VA secretary’s professed ignorance about a report he commissioned describing an ‘existential threat’ to his agency is alarming.
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
The VA Bows to the Dialysis Duopoly
Despite contracting rules in place to give veterans safe and affordable access to dialysis, DaVita and Fresenius are picking up most of the patients.
