Pete Hegseth and Doug Collins’s Push To Cut VA Health Benefits Concerns Veterans Groups

Pete Hegseth, President-elect Donald Trump‘s defense secretary nominee, and Doug Collins, his pick for veterans affairs secretary, have advocated greater privatization of veterans‘ healthcare, leading a former VA secretary to brand it “the worst-case scenario” for veteran healthcare.

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Small aspects of veterans’ healthcare could be privatized. Kate Kuzminski, the director of the military, veterans, and society program at the Center for a New American Security, said aspects not connected to military services, such as annual check-ups or regular vaccination shots, could be overseen by organizations outside the VA.

“There is a potential for individuals who need access to care, either being delayed in accessing that or not being able to access it at all … and we as a nation have philosophically said, ‘Yeah, that is our responsibility,'” Kuzminski said.

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