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Why privatizing the VA or other essential health services is a bad idea

  • Written by Sebastian Jilke, Assistant Professor, Rutgers University Newark

The Trump administration wants to shift billions of dollars from government-run veterans’ hospitals to private health care providers. That’s true even though earlier this year the administration vehemently denied it would privatize any part of the Department of Veterans Affairs.

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