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How the Phoenix VA scandal became a catalyst for reforming veterans’ health care
By April, news broke of more delays in care at the Phoenix VA Medical Center. The VA wasn’t just delaying certain screenings and procedures; it was making a concerted effort to hide how long veterans were waiting for all kinds of care.
The VA MISSION Act: Offering much needed health care reform for veterans
The 2018 VA MISSION Act took veterans’ choice over their health care much further, expanding access to non-VA care and creating avenues for the VA to modernize and streamline its services.
Scandals and VA whistleblower claims drove major VA reforms
As a government entity tasked with caring for those who served, the VA should be accountable to the people and transparent about what is going on behind the scenes. This law was a monumental step toward making the VA more veteran-centric rather than VA-centric.
The war in Afghanistan: Justified at first; a disaster in the end
To understand and learn from the war as a whole, it is important to examine what went right, what mistakes were made, the total cost of the war in dollars and lives, and what could have been done differently.