By: Suzanne Gordon and Russell Lemle for Military.com
VHPI Senior Policy Analysts Suzanne Gordon and Russell Lemle trace a behind-the-scenes negotiation over federal legislation that could drastically damage the VA.
In recent weeks, members of the House and Senate Committees of Veterans’ Affairs have been in intense negotiations hammering out a compromise between three bills that could endanger the nation’s veteran-centric health care system — the Veterans Health Administration, or VHA. The competing bills were introduced by Sens. Jerry Moran, R-Kan., and Jon Tester, D-Mont., and Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks, R-Iowa.
If the language in those bills isn’t radically changed in the eventual compromise, harms produced by a decade of outsourcing of veterans’ health care will only be exacerbated.
VHPI Senior Policy Analysts Suzanne Gordon and Russell Lemle explain these dangers — along with drastic staffing eliminations — in a new op-ed for Military.com.
