Acutely aware that its privatization plan has little support among veterans, the VA has launched a PR blitz to obscure what it’s doing.
Veterans Affairs
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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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Trump Administration Moves Forward on VA Privatization
Under the guise of reducing veteran suicides, the Trump administration has released a plan that could radically reshape veteran care in the United States. The stated goal is to expand mental health services for newly transitioned veterans, the proposal, which administration officials approved on May 31, contains provisions that could starve the Veterans Health Administration […]
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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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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.
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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 […]