We provide clear, fact-based analysis to improve veterans’ healthcare and benefits
WHAT’S NEW WITH VHPI
As the Take Care of America’s Veterans Act (TCAVA) passes through the chambers, senior policy analyst Russell Lemle confronts the players of TCAVA and its potential to weaken suicide prevention for veterans.
“Head-on efforts to remove that authority have consistently been stalled. Sen. Marsha Blackburn’s Veterans Health Care Freedom Act, which would let veterans bypass VA authorization, has been introduced three times since 2022 without becoming law.
The two grant programs in TCAVA, however, could succeed where she has not.”
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.
