March 21, 2018
Years Later, VA Hospitals Are Still Inaccurately Reporting Wait Times for Vets
The Department of Veterans Affairs promised over and over again that it would fix the long wait times after the Phoenix VA scandal. But the problems continue. A recent report from the VA Office of the Inspector General found VA hospitals throughout the Midwest are inaccurately reporting wait times for hundreds of veterans. The official… Read more »
March 15, 2018
CVA Meets With Lawmakers on Capitol Hill
Arlington, VA – Today, Concerned Veterans for America (CVA) gathered on Capitol Hill for a press conference to discuss their legislative agenda for 2018. The group shared its vision for advancing key policy priorities, including bringing more health care choice to veterans through the VA, increasing accountability and transparency at the VA, and reforming defense spending. The group… Read more »
March 3, 2018
Women’s History Month: Honoring Our Women in Uniform
Women have always been integral to military success. They’ve served in support roles while men took to the battlefields, joined in as nurses, took on male-dominated roles as wars became more demanding and now serve in combat. Our female veterans and military members feel a powerful sense of duty to their country, even after they’ve served. Concerned… Read more »
February 27, 2018
Colorado Rep. Has Bold Ideas for Fixing Veterans Health Care
Rep. Doug Lamborn is trying to give more health care options to veterans, not just in his home state of Colorado, but nationwide. Last year, Rep. Lamborn introduced the Veterans Empowerment Act, which would expand the health care options outside the Department of Veterans Affairs to include private providers. Using arbitrary criteria, the Veterans Choice Program governs whether a veteran can… Read more »
February 23, 2018
Memphis VA Employees Got Paid for Extra Leave, Jail Time?
The Memphis Commercial Appeal has reported on another serious ethical breach by employees of a local VA hospital. The newspaper is reporting allegations that an official at the Memphis Veterans Affairs Medical Center was repeatedly falsifying time cards for hospital employees, in effect allowing them to be paid for for time off from working that… Read more »
February 12, 2018
Trump Jumpstarts Stalled VA Health Care Negotiations
In case you missed it, our executive director, Dan Caldwell, wrote an oped in the Washington Examiner last week, praising President Trump for his working to jump-start negotiations in Congress to improve and stabilize the Veterans Health Administration through offering more choices. Those talks have been stalled in Congress for too long: “The president’s comments… Read more »
February 9, 2018
Sen. Baldwin Failed to Protect Veterans at the Tomah VA
Tomah, Wis., has been the sight of multiple Department of Veterans Affairs scandals over the years. The facility earned the nickname “Candy Land” for the amount of prescription painkillers prescribed to patients there. The number of prescribed oxycodone pills skyrocketed from 78,000 to 712,000 between 2005 and 2012. One patient died from mixed-drug toxicity during his stay in the Tomah psychiatric ward. Last year, the VA’s inspector general confirmed that a dentist at the Tomah VA… Read more »
