Opinion Headlines
- VA “The Second VA Scandal” 6-19-14
- VA. “Aid Veterans Affairs by Nixing Budget Gimmickry” 7-23-14
- VA. “Scandal Pays Off for the VA [Gov’t health care gets rewarded for failure and cover-ups] 8-4-14
- VA. LTE “More Moneyu Isn’t the Answer to the VA’s Many Problems” 7-30-14
- VA. LTE. “Technology Could Help VA Patients” by Newt Gingrich 8-20-14
- VA. “Defining Dismissal Down.” [The VA gives officials an opening to retire before they’re fired.] 10-20-2014
- Veterans. “Breaking Another Promise to Veterans.” By Pete Hegseth. [The Choice Program was supposed to make seeking medical care outside the VA system easier. It hasn’t.] 3-13-15
- Veterans. LTE. “We Are Still Keeping an Imperfect Faith With Veterans.” 3-20-15
- “Unfinished Repairs at Veterans Affairs.” [The 40-mile ‘as the crow flies’ rule has been fixed, but much remains to be done.] 4-15-15
- “The Scandals We Don’t Know About.” By Kimberley A. Strassel. [“…Department of Veteran’s Affairs… The new scandal is that we don’t know what other scandals there are…] 5-8-15
- LTE. “Filling Prescriptions: A VA Problem Quick and Easy to Fix.” 8-17-15
- Bureaucrats. “The Sweet Gig of Being a Bureaucrat.” By Mac Zimmerman. 11-20-15
- “Reshaping America’s Views of Veterans.” By David McCormick. 12-7-15
- VA “Chronic Indifference at Veterans Affairs.” By Jerry Moran and Jeff Miller. [A year and a half after vowing to ‘transform’ the agency, the VA’s leadership has shown little progress.] 1-14-16
- LTE. “The VA Can’t Just Fire Its Way to Excellence.” 1-21-16
- Veterans. “The ‘Corrosive Culture’ at Veterans Affairs.” By Kyndra Miller Rotunda. [“…Congress enacted the Veterans Access, Choice and Accountability Act of 2014 in the wake of revelations about bureaucratic dysfunction at the Veterans Affairs Department…government statistics show that hospital wait times [now] are 50% longer than two years ago…”] 4-11-16
- Veterans. “We’re All in Disney World,” by Daniel Henninger. [“Veterans Affairs Secretary Robert McDonald is getting a ride through the media flames this week for suggesting that waits for treatment at VA hospitals are similar to standing in a long line at Disney World…”] 5-26-16
- Veterans. “Money Can’t Cure What Ails Veterans Affairs.” By Anthony Principi. [The VA has ballooned to over 365,000 employees. Are vets feeling better?] 5-27-16
- VA. LTE. “The Chance of Real Reform at the VA Is Low.” 6-8-16
- VA. “Veterans Affairs Is Off Its Leash Again.” By Luis Carlos Montalvan. 7-8-16
- VA. LTE. “Dogs Are Easy, but the VA Bungles the Obvious.” 7-23-16
- “The VA’s Faltering Battle Against Veteran Suicide. By Robert M. Morganthau. [New York City cut its murder rate, Congress and the White House can help the VA cut the suicide rate.] 10-3-16
- “Helping Our Heroes Heal.” By Karl Rove. [A retreat in Virginia where traumatized vets and their families can begin to recover.] 12-22-16
- “Make the VA Great Again.” By Tiffany Smiley. [My husband was blinded in Iraq. At the VA rehab center, he was given books on cassette. Cassettes!] 12-28-16
- “Trump’s Promise to Veterans.” By Rebecca Burgess. [Corruption at the VA isn’t punished, while the Pentagon claws back signing bonuses.] 4-14-17
- Medicine. “Medicare Could Learn a Thing or Two From the VA.” By Walid F. Gellad. [A well-functioning formulary lets veterans get the medications they need with low copayments.] 6-15-17
- LTE. “Don’t Extend VA Drug Pricing, Formulary.” 6-27-17
- VA. “Can the VA Fire Anyone?” [Congress wrote its recent reform for this kind of case. Try it.] 8-15-17
- VA. “Save the Veteran’s Choice Program.” By Rebecca Burgess and Jeff Cleland. [A worthy VA reform becomes hostage to the debate over government’s role in health care.] 12-26-17
- VA. “Congress’s Chance to Do Right by Veterans.” By Anthony Tersigni. [Send the VA Mission Act to the president’s desk by Memorial Day.] 5-10-18
- VA. “The VA Continues a Centuries-Long History of Scandal.” [Fraud and waste plagued veteran pensions in 1820. Since then the problem has only expanded.] 6-27-18
- VA. Veterans. “A GI Bill Wrong From the Pentagon.” By Maria Biery. [Benefit restrictions that kick in after 16 years of service.] 7-19-18
- VA. “He Has a Purple Heart, but the VA Wouldn’t Call Him a Veteran.” By Rose Carmen Goldberg. [Because he left the service with ‘bad paper,’ Alejandro Garcia was denied benefits for almost nine years.] 2-13-19