Between December 2024 and August 2025, the VA reported a net loss of thousands of health care positions, and advocates report the impact of understaffing, facility closures, and waiting times has been ‘dire.’
Veterans Affairs
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How VA Cuts Damage Women Veterans
The failure of Congress to require the same training, screenings, and military cultural competency tools and skills for both VA and private sector providers could cost women veterans their lives.
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VA’s Nonexpert Health Expert
Unlike all of his predecessors, Trump’s soon-to-be veterans health care chief is not a doctor.
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Union-Buster in Chief
Trump has surpassed Reagan in his war on workers’ rights.
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The Prospect Weekly Roundup: A Broken Health Care System
On our live show, David and veterans’ health care reporter Suzanne Gordon look at the shattered state of American health care, even before Trump cuts and VA privatization.
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The Illusion of Choice
Republicans say that VA patients can get equivalent private-sector care anywhere in the U.S. Here’s a 50-state reality check.
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Privatizing Veterans’ Health Care Will Be a Disaster
Thousands of VA health care workers have been fired. Private-sector replacements will be worse.
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Why Change VA Hospital Medical Staff Bylaws?
It threatens the principle of equity that undergirds veterans’ health care.
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Defending VA Veterans Health Care on D-Day
Thousands of veterans mobilize to oppose the gutting of direct care and the move toward privatization.
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VA Secretary Collins: Indifferent to Public’s and Congressional Opposition to His Gutting Veterans’ Care
In congressional testimony, he refused to take responsibility for his drastic downsizing.