We provide clear, fact-based analysis to improve veterans’ healthcare and benefits
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The VA’s Largest Community Care Administrator Has a Mental Health Problem
For many veterans grappling with mental health issues, nothing beats sitting in the room with a therapist. Charlie Marg is one of them. His wife, Paige, testified to this last year at a Senate Committee on Veterans’ Affairs hearing examining treatment in the Community Care Network (CCN) — the VA’s backup pool of private-sector providers: “My husband has utilized telehealth before in some of his referrals to community care. Personally, he would rather choose to see somebody in person… especially when he’s talking about his mental health struggles.”
For HEALTH CARE un-covered, senior policy analyst Russell Lemle examines the pitfalls of the VA healthcare promised to veterans.
WHO WE ARE
Founded by veterans, healthcare providers, and journalists in 2016, the Veterans Healthcare Policy Institute is a non-profit, non-partisan think tank that provides clear, fact-based analysis to improve veterans’ healthcare and benefits. We help the public, policy makers, and the media understand that the VA is the only healthcare system in America that has the expertise needed to provide high quality care for our veterans. Plus, the VA serves all Americans through its clinical, research, and teaching missions. More than this, the VA pressure tests solutions to many of the nation’s most pressing social problems, from reducing homelessness, to improving health equity.
