A Billionaire Tries Again to Hijack Veterans’ Care
Hedge fund giant Steven Cohen’s first effort to accelerate mental health care privatization failed. His second attempt has begun.
Another Mass Staffing Purge at the VA
Up to 37,000 positions may be dropped, with the VA transformed into a facilitator for outsourcing, sources tell the Prospect.
The Prospect Weekly Roundup: The War on Veterans
On our live show, David speaks with Suzanne Gordon and Steve Early about attacks on veterans’ health care and veterans’ disability benefits.
Trump Is Coming for Veterans’ Disability Benefits
Administration allies falsely allege that many former soldiers are cheating the system.
Despite Vow to Protect Health Care for Veterans, VA Losing Doctors and Nurses
Impact of understaffing, facility closures, and waiting times has been ‘dire.’
How VA Cuts Damage Women Veterans
The challenges that these military members face merit more focused attention. Instead, vital services like mental health care face devastating cuts.
VA’s Nonexpert Health Expert
Unlike all of his predecessors, Trump’s soon-to-be veterans health care chief is not a doctor.
Union-Buster in Chief
Trump has surpassed Reagan in his war on workers’ rights.
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.
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.
Privatizing Veterans’ Health Care Will Be a Disaster
Thousands of VA health care workers have been fired. Private-sector replacements will be worse.
Why Change VA Hospital Medical Staff Bylaws?
It threatens the principle of equity that undergirds veterans’ health care.
Defending VA Veterans Health Care on D-Day
Thousands of veterans mobilize to oppose the gutting of direct care and the move toward privatization.
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.
Inside the VA’s War on Unions
How some (but not all) VA unions became a national-security threat
Has the VA Stymied a Profession It Helped Create?
Physician assistants could help with the Veterans Administration’s staffing challenges. But though the VA pays for training scholarships, PAs have found it hard to get work there.
Mad King Trump’s War on the Troops
The administration is vindictively hacking away at veterans’ benefits.
Trump Stomps Workers
Stripping bargaining rights from most federal employees is one more way he’s converting a constitutional government into a monarch’s court.
Doug Collins’s Cancel Culture
The VA secretary is targeting the wrong contracts to eliminate waste and inefficiency.
Can Veterans Stop the Dismantling of Veterans’ Services?
Today on TAP: Trump and Musk have begun to cut back on services that veterans need. There’s a way veterans could stop them.
How I Am Standing Up to DOGE
The California congressman explains why the upheaval of federal agencies is ineffective and a pretext for tax cuts for the rich.
The Prospect Weekly Roundup: Crisis at the VA
On our live show, David and Suzanne Gordon discuss developments damaging the Veterans Health Administration and its prodigious research functions.
VA Research Funding Slashed
Though not as prominent as the NIH, VA researchers play a major role in advancing basic health science. Hundreds of projects have been cut.
A ‘Middle Finger’ to Vets
Trump’s new VA secretary is a bigger threat to veterans’ care than Elon Musk.
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.
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.
The VA’s Self-Made Dialysis Disaster
The agency has been getting played for years, but is reluctant to change.
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.
How Walz Can Help Harris Woo Vet Voters
And just maybe save the VA
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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