The broader assault on the agency is designed to sap public trust in government.
Health Care
Why Apprenticeships Might Be the Future of Nursing
Registered nurses are increasingly expected to have a bachelor’s degree. Training programs are a sensible way to lessen that burden while maintaining diversity.
Living Organ Donations Save Lives. Why Are They So Rare In America?
Roughly 12 percent of patients on U.S. transplant waiting lists die every year. It doesn’t have to be this way.
Unhealthy Skepticism
How the media gets the story wrong on the Veterans Administration.
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.
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.
David Shulkin Failed Veterans Long Before His Travel Scandal
The secretary of veterans affairs, once a putative defender of government-provided veterans’ care, is no longer the hero he portrays himself to be.
Can Big Medicine Control Big Pharma? (Hint: the Answer Is ‘No’)
Four giant health care systems are joining forces to produce generic drugs at a lower cost to themselves. But, that doesn’t mean the savings will be passed on to consumers.
Why Is the VA Hiding a PR Goldmine?
VA Secretary David Shulkin is suppressing his own book that highlights the agency’s success.
Trump’s Threat to Veterans’ Health Care
It would be a mistake to privatize America’s best-performing health care system.