What Glenn Youngkin’s appointment of Daniel Gade reveals about the GOP’s real attitude toward returning soldiers.
Veterans affairs
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 inEconomy, Featured, Political Animal, Politics, The Monopolized Economy
How Investing in the VA Can Help Fight Hospital Monopolies
Predatory corporate giants make expanding the agency’s role in the U.S. health care system all the more urgently in the public interest.
Posted inHealth Care, Political Animal, Politics
Denis McDonough’s Last Chance to Fix the Department of Veterans Affairs
The slow march to the privatization of veterans’ care began on McDonough’s watch. As Biden’s VA Secretary, can he turn back the clock?
Posted inBooks, Featured, Political Animal
Public Service the Hard Way
How Donald Trump hired and fired his first Veterans Affairs secretary.
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 inPolitical Animal
Why Is Trump Turning to Dr. Ronny Jackson Again?
The president may want a doctor he can rely on to give him a good health assessment.
Posted inFeatured, Health Care
John Boehner Is Now Leading the Charge to Privatize the VHA
The broader assault on the agency is designed to sap public trust in government.
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.
