VA healthcare

Health Care

VA’s Private Health Plan Faces Huge Cost Overruns

by Russell Lemle and Suzanne Gordon January 3, 2024January 2, 2024

The Veterans Community Care Program promised to give vets speedier access to high0quality care. Instead, its care is of lower quality, takes longer and its cost is soaring.

Featured, Political Animal, Politics

The VA Is Ripe for Right-Wing Attacks. Here’s How Biden Can Stop Them.

by Suzanne Gordon and Jasper Craven October 27, 2021January 12, 2022

Health Care, Politics

In Defense of Art in VA Hospitals

by Suzanne Gordon September 13, 2016January 9, 2022

Health Care, Politics

A Conversation About the Commission on Care and the Future of the VA

by Phillip Longman and Suzanne Gordon July 14, 2016January 9, 2022

Political Animal

Conservatives Just Lost the War to Privatize the VA

by Paul Glastris July 8, 2016January 9, 2022

Health Care

More on the VA “Scandal” That Wasn’t

by Paul Glastris March 17, 2016January 8, 2022

Health Care, Magazine, March/April/May 2016

The VA Isn’t Broken, Yet

by Alicia Mundy March 13, 2016January 8, 2022

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