Veterans group proposes radical changes to VA

By Bennett Haeberle

A veterans advocacy group is proposing radical changes to the Department of Veterans Affairs, including a plan that would dismantle the agency in the hopes of injecting both improved care and increased choices for veterans.

The plan, unveiled publicly Thursday at a summit in Washington D.C., calls for splitting the Veterans Health Administration into two agencies: one that would oversee health insurance coverage and billing, and other that would deal with health care for veterans. The latter of the two would become a “government-sponsored non-profit.”

The proposed changes, unveiled by the conservative group Concerned Veterans for America, are part of a massive plan to overhaul a heavily criticized VA and inject more choices for veterans seeking health care. The current model, as Former Tennessee Senator Bill Frist put it, “needs to listen very carefully to what veterans want, to what they need. Health care has not done a good job with that.”

He added that under the proposed reforms, veterans would have more access to private health care options already available to many Americans.

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