JOURNALISM AND COMMENTARY
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 Zoom forum on the AIR Commission, which you can view here.
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.
Biden's Infrastructure Plan Would Finally Fund VA's Hospital Upgrades
By: Russell Lemle and Suzanne Gordon, Senior Policy Analysts, for The Hill • Russell Lemle and Suzanne Gordon, two of VHPI's Senior Policy Analysts, wrote an op-ed in The Hill analyzing how President Biden's infrastructure plans could bolster the VA in key ways.
St. Louis Veterans Affairs Expects To Give 80% of Patients COVID-19 Vaccine By Summer
By: St. Louis Public Radio; Source: Suzanne Gordon • VHPI Policy Fellow Suzanne Gordon spoke to St. Louis Public Radio about the impressive work by the Department of Veterans Affairs to coordinate care and administer vaccines during the COVID-19 pandemic.
VA outreach puts Minnesota veterans on vaccine fast track
By: Chris Serres; Source: Suzanne Gordon • The Star Tribune spoke with VHPI Policy Fellow Suzanne Gordon in its report on how the VA “has emerged as a success story in the furious race to vaccinate people against the deadly [coronavirus]."
New Study Settles the Privatization Debate: VA Produces Better Outcomes at Lower Cost
Over the past decade, a heated argument has raged in Congress and the media over the best way to provide healthcare to the nation’s veterans.
A VA Primary Care Physician Explains How the “VA Advantage” Works on the Ground
A recent study by Stanford University economists categorically demonstrates that veterans who get their care at the VHA live longer during and after a medical emergency,
Rather Than Bash the VA, Let’s Learn From Its Successes
By: Joan Cook PhD; Source: VHPI analysis • Joan Cook, an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the Yale School of Medicine, wrote in the Federal Practitioner about VHPI's recent analysis of a groundbreaking study into the "VA advantage."
Veterans, Monopolies, and the future of Veterans’ Health Care
VHPI Advisory Board Member Phillip Longman, author of the book Best Care Anywhere: Why VA healthcare would be Better for Everyone (now in its third edition), has in-depth knowledge of what happens inside America’s public and private health care sectors.
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 Is a Bipartisan Topic.
Coalition of organizations converge on Capitol Hill to fight VA privatization
Lewis “Skip” Delano deployed to Vietnam in 1968 after growing up farming in Virginia and Maryland.
The State of Veterans’ Health Care in 2019
A radical overhaul of veterans’ dedicated health care system was rolled out in 2019. The VA MISSION Act, the successor to the VA’s much-troubled and consistently over-budget ‘Choice’ program was deployed in June.
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 Wilkie, the Secretary of Veterans Affairs.
An Encounter with VA Politics
In May 2019, the Department of Veterans Affairs terminated a 10-year-old program that sent healthcare providers to fill temporary staffing needs at VA medical clinics throughout the country.