The president needs to appoint an undersecretary for health who can build on the revolution that remade the agency in the 1990s.
Suzanne Gordon and Jasper Craven
Suzanne Gordon is a senior policy analyst at the Veterans Healthcare Policy Institute, and the author of Wounds of War: How the VA Delivers Health, Healing, and Hope to the Nation's Veterans.
Jasper Craven is a freelance reporter interested in overlooked policy changes at the local, state and federal levels. He has written for The Nation, Vermont Digger, The Boston Globe, and the Chicago Tribune, among other outlets.
Posted inFeatured, Health Care, Political Animal, Politics
The Trump Administration Is Sabotaging Veterans’ Access to Health Care
In its push toward privatization, the VA is actively thwarting Congressional oversight.
Posted inHealth Care, July/August 2018, Magazine
Unhealthy Skepticism
How the media gets the story wrong on the Veterans Administration.
Posted inFeatured, Health Care
Trump Is Sabotaging a Veterans’ Health Care Law He Just Signed
After gleefully signing the VA Mission Act into law last week, Trump is now refusing to fund it.
Posted inFeatured, Health Care
Congress Is Poised to Push Veterans’ Health Care Closer to Privatization
The VA Mission Act sends more veterans into private health care without giving the VA the resources it so badly needs.
