Medicaid privatization in Kansas and Iowa show why outsourcing the VA would have tragic, even fatal, consequences.
Veterans Affairs
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
With Shulkin Out, Veterans Need to Mobilize to Stop VA Privatization
Trump’s new appointee to head the Department of Veterans Affairs will likely do little to oppose the privatization of veterans’ health care.
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
Studies Show Private-Sector Providers Are Not Ready to Care for Veterans
As Congress moves ahead with plans to outsource more and more veteran health care to the private sector, three high-profile studies should urge lawmakers to pump the brakes. The studies, published in recent weeks by RAND Corporation, Federal Practitioner, and the National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine, spotlight serious flaws in private-sector veterans’ care […]
