A Trauma Doctor Raises Questions over VA Outsourcing
Edward Machtinger, MD, is a VHPI Advisory Board Member and Professor at UCSF. He recently spoke at VHPI's Zoom forum on the AIR...
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- May 17, 2021
- 4 min
An Expert on Hospital Management Warns About the VA's Infrastructure Future
Alan Sager is Professor of Health Policy and Management at the Boston University School of Public Health. He recently spoke at VHPI's...
- Apr 26, 2021
- 4 min
The VA's COVID-19 + Suicide Prevention Secrets
Almost weekly now, new evidence emerges about the superiority of VA healthcare when compared to the private sector. VHPI has written...
- Mar 10, 2021
- 3 min
A VA Primary Care Physician Explains How the “VA Advantage” Works on the Ground
Suzanne Gordon Interviews Rebecca Shunk A recent study by Stanford University economists categorically demonstrates that veterans who get...
- Mar 10, 2021
- 6 min
New Study Settles the Privatization Debate: VA Produces Better Outcomes at Lower Cost
By Suzanne Gordon and Russell Lemle, VHPI Policy Fellows Over the past decade, a heated argument has raged in Congress and the media over...
- Jan 12, 2021
- 3 min
Fact Check: Sec. Wilkie's IMPROVE Claims
Last Wednesday, Department of Veterans Affairs Secretary Robert Wilke published an opinion piece “In Congress, Veteran Suicide Prevention...
- Jan 12, 2021
- 4 min
The State of Veterans’ Health Care in 2019
THE YEAR IN REVIEW By Brett W. Copeland VHPI Executive Director A radical overhaul of veterans’ dedicated health care system was rolled...
- Dec 20, 2020
- 3 min
VHPI Calls on Wilkie to Resign
Over the past week, the most influential veterans’ organizations (and even The New York Times) have called for the firing of Robert...
- Dec 17, 2020
- 7 min
An Encounter with VA Politics
AN ENCOUNTER WITH VA POLITICS ILLUSTRATES THE NEED FOR CULTURE CHANGE WITH VA CENTRAL OFFICE By Ali Parand, a general internist and...
- Oct 20, 2020
- 11 min
Remaking the Politics of Veterans' Healthcare
Part II of VHPI’s Conversation with Stephen Trynosky In part I of this conversation with Stephen Trynosky, VHPI discussed how the House...
- Oct 13, 2020
- 7 min
The Broken Politics of Veterans’ Healthcare
HOW THE VA CAN BETTER MANAGE ITS RELATIONSHIPS WITH LEGISLATORS AND DRIVE BETTER CARE FOR VETERANS. Since 2014, there has been a rapid...
- Aug 25, 2020
- 6 min
The fallout of a 'bad paper' discharge
When it comes to life after service for military veterans, civilians likely do not consider – much less realize – how discharge status...
- Aug 23, 2020
- 3 min
The assault on the Postal Service puts veterans in the line of fire
AN ATTACK ON THE POSTAL SERVICE IS AN ATTACK ON THE COMMUNITY OF VETERANS By Jay Youngdahl Veteran, Third Armored Division, U.S. Army...
- Jun 21, 2020
- 4 min
The Challenges Women Veterans Face
By Bridget Lattanzi OIF Veteran and VHPI Steering Committee Member I was telling another nurse about my chronic tinnitus - ringing in the...
- Jun 14, 2020
- 4 min
Op-Ed: Two Mental Health Centers Hit with Defense Budget Cuts
WHY CLOSURE OF MILITARY TRAUMA PROGRAMS UNDER THE NATIONAL DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION ACT IS POOR POLICY Over the past three years, the Trump...
- May 3, 2020
- 3 min
Coming Thursday: Report on VA Staffing Crisis
HOW YEARS OF POLITICAL INACTION AND IDEOLOGICAL ATTACKS THRUST THE VA INTO THE WORST VACANCY CRISIS IN AMERICAN GOVERNMENT - AND HOW TO...
- Apr 12, 2020
- 3 min
The VA shouldn't have its facilities closed during the COVID-19 crisis
VA FACILITIES NEED TO EXPAND WHILE THE COMMISSION RESPONSIBLE FOR CLOSING THEM SHOULD DISBAND. The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed...
- Feb 22, 2020
- 5 min
Firearm Storage as a Suicide Prevention Tactic for Veterans
FIREARM FOUNDATIONS, VETERANS, AND HEALTH CARE ADMINISTRATORS AND ADVOCATES WILL DISCUSS VETERAN SUICIDE AT A ONE-DAY CONFERENCE IN SAN...
- Feb 3, 2020
- 3 min
Coalition of organizations converge on Capitol Hill to fight VA privatization
VETERANS FOR PEACE, NATIONAL NURSES UNITED, AND MEMBERS OF THE AMERICAN FEDERATION OF GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES, AND COMMON DEFENSE ARE...
- Jan 21, 2020
- 8 min
Veterans, Monopolies, and the future of Veterans’ Health Care
PHILLIP LONGMAN, A LEADING VOICE ON HEALTH CARE MARKET CONSOLIDATION AND HEALTH CARE SYSTEMS, DISASSEMBLES THE FALSE CHOICE NOW BEING...