April 21, 2021
What is the AIR Commission, and how could it help improve VA health care?
This article was updated on March 25, 2022. If you’ve read or heard anything about the VA MISSION Act, you know what the law does to improve and expand veterans’ access to medical care. It created a new community care program that gives more veterans the freedom to choose medical care from providers outside the Department… Read more »
April 16, 2021
VA appointment problems hark back to Phoenix scandal
Joshua Stanwitz, a coalitions director with Concerned Veterans for America in Arizona, was just starting his journey with the VA health care system when news of the Phoenix VA wait list scandal broke seven years ago. The Arizona Republic, the state’s largest newspaper, found out that the local VA hospital had been maintaining two sets of wait lists – an official electronic list… Read more »
April 14, 2021
Caldwell: Biden must ‘keep his promise’ to end the war in Afghanistan
Today, President Joseph Biden announced U.S. troops will remain in Afghanistan beyond the May 1, 2021, withdrawal deadline established in the Doha agreement. However, the president established a new timeline for bringing troops home, committing to full withdrawal by September 11, 2021. By that date, the U.S. will have been at war in Afghanistan just… Read more »
April 9, 2021
Seven years after Phoenix scandal, VA is failing veterans by not fully implementing the MISSION Act
This weekend marks seven years since the Phoenix VA scandal came to light. In 2014, news broke revealing veterans were being kept on secret appointment wait lists at VA medical facilities in order to manipulate and hide actual wait times. In the years that followed, accountability and access reforms have improved conditions for veterans using the VA… Read more »
April 7, 2021
CVA joins cross-partisan group calling for Afghanistan withdrawal by May 1
The May 1 deadline for withdrawing American troops from Afghanistan is just a few short weeks away, but Concerned Veterans for America and others are still calling on President Joe Biden to stick to that deadline. CVA has joined eight other organizations across the political spectrum in advocating that Biden adhere to the Doha agreement… Read more »
March 31, 2021
By the numbers: the impact of canceled appointments at the VA
When the COVID-19 pandemic hit last year, the Department of Veterans Affairs was turned on its head. Suddenly, millions of medical appointments were canceled, both at VA facilities and in community care programs. Non-urgent care has yet to get back to normal. A year later, America’s veterans have felt the effects of COVID-19 and canceled… Read more »
March 24, 2021
Anderson: Why Biden should stick to the Afghanistan withdrawal deadline
Our Executive Director Nate Anderson deployed to Afghanistan twice as a Green Beret, once during the Bush administration, once during the Obama administration. He applauded when the Trump administration signed an agreement to set a timeline for U.S. withdrawal. Now he waits to see if the Biden administration will live up to that deal as the May 1… Read more »
