Behind Miller’s growing lobbying portfolio lies one of the biggest unexamined shifts in Washington’s influence game.
Health Care for Veterans
Long waits, shoddy care and overprescription of opiates have long marred the VA health system.
Is Donald Trump letting veterans down?
While veterans supported Trump, the president has yet to nominate anyone to fill key leadership positions at the Department of Veterans Affairs.
Extension of veterans health care program urged despite woeful record
The program is failing at its most basic goals, with some veterans still waiting more than eight months to receive outside medical care.
Wisconsin doctor known as ‘Candy Man’ stripped of medical license
The former chief of staff of the Tomah VA Medical Center has agreed to permanently surrender his license to practice medicine in Wisconsin.
Opiate prescriptions down at the VA, alternatives on the rise
The Department of Veterans Affairs is doling out narcotics to 160,000 fewer veterans than it was three years ago, a reduction of nearly 25 percent, and alternative treatments are on the rise.
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.
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.
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.”
Obama signs new opiate safety law for veterans
President Barack Obama has signed sweeping new narcotics reforms into law that dramatically change the way the Department of Veterans Affairs dispenses and monitors dangerous and addictive opiates.
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