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.
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Posted inFeatured, Political Animal, Politics
The VA Is Ripe for Right-Wing Attacks. Here’s How Biden Can Stop Them.
The president needs to appoint an undersecretary for health who can build on the revolution that remade the agency in the 1990s.
Posted inHealth Care, Politics
In Defense of Art in VA Hospitals
Conservatives are mad about spending government money on art, but it provides real medical benefits.
Posted inHealth Care, Politics
A Conversation About the Commission on Care and the Future of the VA
A conversation about how the Commission on Care killed VA privatization and what the agency still needs to improve.
Posted inPolitical Animal
Conservatives Just Lost the War to Privatize the VA
VA health care performs as well or better than the private sector on nearly every metric of quality.
Posted inHealth Care
More on the VA “Scandal” That Wasn’t
Last Friday, the Washington Monthly released a major investigatory piece by Alicia Mundy about the 2014 VA “scandal”—the one in which scores of veterans were said to have died as a result of lengthy wait times to see VA doctors. Mundy’s story shows that these allegations were baseless–that they were cooked up by a Koch […]
Posted inHealth Care, Magazine, March/April/May 2016
The VA Isn’t Broken, Yet
Inside the Koch brothers’ campaign to invent a scandal and dismantle the country’s most successful health care system.
