The Underrated Legislative Threat to VA's Existence

While controversy swirls around last week's mass firing of 1,000 Department of Veterans Affairs' employees, a far greater threat to veterans' health care is going completely unnoticed. Powerful leaders in Congress have quietly unveiled their plan to gut VA-delivered care, wrapped in the misleadingly titled "Veterans' ACCESS Act." If veterans don't act fast, they will lose the VA health care system they know and depend on. In a new, urgent piece for Military.com, VHPI Senior Policy Analyst Russell Lemle interrogates a new innocuous-sounding Congressional bill that, if passed, would set up the VA to be transformed from a world-class healthcare system into little more than an insurance-paying organization. Read it here.