The chairman of the House Committee on Veterans Affairs and seven colleagues have written to Vice President Mike Pence asking for answers.
Category: Returning Home to Battle
For many veterans, the end of active duty means the beginning of a new fight with the U.S Department of Veterans Affairs – for benefits, housing and a chance to rebuild their lives.
Posted inCOVID-19, Returning Home to Battle
3 VA health workers have died of COVID-19. 776 have tested positive.
The casualties come in the wake of reporting that staff were short of protective masks and gloves and were required to report to work sick.
Posted inAccountability, Health Care, Returning Home to Battle, The Trump Era
How ex-congressman Jeff Miller is single-handedly shaping the push to privatize VA health care
Behind Miller’s growing lobbying portfolio lies one of the biggest unexamined shifts in Washington’s influence game.
Posted inAccountability, Returning Home to Battle, The Trump Era
VA’s mental health care crisis draws private firms pitching dubious PTSD treatments
“The answer is: If it hasn’t been proven, it’s not something the VA should endorse,” says one agency official.
Posted inHealth Care, Returning Home to Battle
Veterans Choice is flawed, but Congress is stymied on a solution
With the Veterans Choice health care program set to expire next August, why not go back to the way things were before? The answer: 1 million veterans now rely on it, many with little choice in the matter.
Posted inAccountability, Health Care, Returning Home to Battle
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No Choice: Failing America’s veterans
Two years ago, the system that provides American veterans with health care was rocked by scandal when whistleblowers exposed that vets were dying while the Phoenix VA concealed them on a secret waiting list. Reveal revisits the scandal and investigates what happened next.
Posted inAccountability, Health Care, Health Care, Returning Home to Battle
Veterans Choice didn’t ease health care woes, especially in Alaska
Veterans Choice is Congress’ hastily crafted response to the scandal of veterans dying while awaiting appointments at VA medical facilities. Many veterans call it “No Choice” or “Bad Choice.”
Posted inAccountability, National Security, Returning Home to Battle
America’s atomic tests
Between 1946 and 1962, the U.S. detonated more than 200 nuclear bombs above ground and underwater. We profile each test and map out the shots.
Posted inAccountability, Health Care, Returning Home to Battle
America’s atomic vets: ‘We were used as guinea pigs – every one of us’
Atomic veterans feel abused, neglected and forgotten by the government and a country that exposed them to unforeseen risks. In the decades since the n
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Curl up with Reveal’s top #longreads from 2015
Check out five pieces of our best long-form writing from 2015, as selected by Reveal’s staff.