Hill November 4, 2019
For years, efforts to provide veterans more health care outside the Department of Veterans Affairs have been described by critics as a plot to dismantle the VA medical system. While the recent improvements in delivery of veterans’ health care have proven those claims false, a real threat has emerged to care for veterans and military families.
“Medicare for All” proposals in Congress would establish a single-payer health care system run by the government. They would prohibit the sale of private health plans while ending employer-sponsored insurance coverage and private and public sector retiree health plans.
Although Medicare for All would leave the government-run portion of the VA system intact, it would eliminate the Department of Defense’s TRICARE program, a network...
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