JOURNALISM AND COMMENTARY
D-Day for the VHA?
By: Suzanne Gordon • High risks potentially await veterans as the VA MISSION Act is launched. It’s likely that high cost awaits American taxpayers, too.
VA Care for All
By: Suzanne Gordon • Gordon spoke to KFPA radio about her new book and how the VA provides the best model for national healthcare.
Putting Veterans at Risk
By: Suzanne Gordon • VA officials admitted that the VA MISSION Act would likely ‘stumble’ in its first days of implementation. One veterans’ advocate warned of the problems veterans could face from the private sector.
The VA Is Privatizing Veterans’ Health Care While Denying It
By: Suzanne Gordon • Health Care While Denying It
The Plan to Push Veterans into Private-Sector Health Care
By: Suzanne Gordon • Access standards are driving the conversation around the VA MISSION Act’s implementation — not the clinical needs of veteran patients.f
Trump’s Under-the-Radar Push to Dismantle Veterans Health Care
By: Jasper Craven & Suzanne Gordon • The MISSION Act was supposed to fix the problems with an expensive program that outsourced veterans to the private sector. But did it make those mistakes permanent?
VA’s Mental Health Crisis Draws Private Firms with Dubious Treatment
By: Jasper Craven & Suzanne Gordon • “A behind-the-scenes race by private companies, some offering questionable – or at least unproven – treatments for the signature injury of modern war: post-traumatic stress disorder.”
Unhealthy Skepticism
By: Suzanne Gordon & Jasper Craven • Major reports in U.S. health care publications say the private sector isn’t prepared to care for veteran patients. Why is Congress moving ahead with its plan anyway?
Hedge-Fund Titan Greasing the Levers for Privatizing Veteran Health
By: Jasper Craven & Suzanne Gordon • Steven A. Cohen has hired lobbyists in D.C. while expanding his network of veteran mental health clinics. Is he ‘greasing the wheels of VHA privatization?’
Private-Sector Providers Are Not Ready to Care for Veterans
By: Suzanne Gordon • Major reports in U.S. health care publications say the private sector isn’t prepared to care for veteran patients. Why is Congress moving ahead with its plan anyway?

