For the four million veterans who call rural America home, long drives are often part of life—for necessities like groceries, gas, and for medical care at VA hospitals. But what about those veterans who can’t drive and live in remote areas? How are they supposed to reach their VA appointments? The answer isn’t simple. Take… Read more »
Imagine you attempt to fill a glass of water, but the water keeps leaking out the sides. You then look and notice the glass itself has cracks and is damaged. With this observation, you notice the problem isn’t that the glass needs more water…but that the glass itself needs to be fixed to properly do… Read more »
We’ve all been there. Veterans who use the Department of Veterans Affairs for their health care are all too familiar with the extensive wait times for medical appointments. Average wait times can be from a few days to a few months for needed care. And even if we’re able to schedule an appointment relatively… Read more »
For more than 15 years, the federal government’s Veterans Crisis Line has been a resource for former military members who need an immediate connection to specially trained mental health responders. While the resource has helped many veterans, it isn’t perfect. And, like many top-down programs with no competition, it can take months or years to… Read more »
The Department of Veterans Affairs has a duty and responsibility to provide needed care and benefits to veterans. But misconduct, harassment, and a lack of accountability consistently get in the way of that mission. The House Veterans Affairs Committee recently voted to subpoena documents regarding sexual harassment in the VA’s Office for Resolution Management, Diversity… Read more »
In a time when the Vietnam War was raging, and many Americans were taking out their anger on the fighters rather than the war, it would have been easy to stay home. But Frank Lagana was a faithful Marine who didn’t shy away from a fight. Decades later, when he reached out to the VA… Read more »
If you’re a faithful follower of Concerned Veterans for America, you’ve read a #VAFail or two this year. But what is the worst of the worst? From bullying good employees out of their jobs to actively hiding information from FOIA requests to fatal mishandling of care, it’s been a year of failure at the… Read more »
