Though not as prominent as the NIH, VA researchers play a major role in advancing basic health science. Hundreds of projects have been cut.
Veterans Affairs
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A ‘Middle Finger’ to Vets
Trump’s new VA secretary is a bigger threat to veterans’ care than Elon Musk.
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Pete Hegseth’s Venmo: Defense Contractors, UnitedHealth Execs, Fox, and Friends
The VA may be the next government agency to go dark, if Pete Hegseth’s digital Rolodex is anything to go by.
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Suicide by Rental Truck: America Gets Another Violent Wake-Up Call From Vets in Distress
Twenty years of war has created tens of thousands of broken men and women.
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The VA’s Self-Made Dialysis Disaster
The agency has been getting played for years, but is reluctant to change.
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The Contracting Gold Mine That Hurts Veterans
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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How Walz Can Help Harris Woo Vet Voters
And just maybe save the VA
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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.
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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.
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Privatization Warning
A VA advisory panel issues a red alert on outsourcing.
