Currently, more than one quarter of the VA’s $120 billion clinical care budget is being spent outside the VA for treatment that could be provided, at lower cost and with greater effectiveness, within the nation’s largest public healthcare system.

Source: https://beyondchron.org/picketing-at-fort-miley-sf-nurses-fight-va-scheduling-change-caused-by-outsourcing-cost-cutting/

In 2015, Delaware experienced 11 veteran suicides according to the VA’s most updated statistics.

Source: https://delawarebusinessnow.com/2023/09/mark-farner-club-phred-return-to-vet-fest-on-sept-30/

The lawyers argue that the VA’s calculations don’t make sense based on the laws themselves and also based on court rulings favoring veterans going back to World War II.

Source: https://chicago.suntimes.com/2023/3/10/23623016/veterans-affairs-gibill-rudisill-va-post911-gi-bill-montgomery-army-supreme-court-chuck-hagel

VA’s top human resources officials support another bipartisan bill that would raise pay caps for VA medical professionals.

Source: https://federalnewsnetwork.com/pay/2023/12/house-lawmakers-seek-higher-pay-for-va-radiation-specialists-treating-vets-with-cancer/