Tag: Department of Veterans Affairs

Tricking Veterans: Using Suicide and Mental Health Struggles as a Guise for Privatizing the VA

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

While attention remains focused on the looming crisis of Department of Veterans Affairs employees facing termination, an even more ominous threat to veterans’ health care advances unnoticed through the halls of Congress

Tricking Veterans: Using Suicide and Mental Health Struggles as a Guise for Privatizing the VA

Previously:

Speak Up Before VA Health Care Is Gutted #Project2025

“I’m sorry we don’t have office supplies. We have to bring in our own pens and paper and marking pens, because the VA doesn’t have it.”

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

‘These cuts will hurt veterans.’ Concerns voiced about Trump administration VA budget reductions.

He said that through the years they were able to modernize and now he relies on the VA Hospital in Madison for his primary health care.

He said he was there recently and became alarmed to hear about cuts now under the Trump administration.

“When I was up there six weeks ago for an incident, I asked one of the nurses, ‘Can I get a pad of paper and a pen to just write some stuff down in the interim between the examinations,’” the veteran recounted. “And she said, ‘I’m sorry we don’t have office supplies. We have to bring in our own pens and paper and marking pens, because the VA doesn’t have it.’”

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“Don’t just thank me for my service. Tell me what you’re doing to make this country better,” he said.