veterans affairs

Media Matters catches Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele repeating (and botching) the false charge that the Department of Veterans Affairs, by making available a guide to writing a living will, is telling veterans to kill themselves.
[Y]ou have a manual out there telling our veterans stuff like “are you really of value to your community?” [...]

According to David Freddoso, the Department of Veterans Affairs has yanked “Your Life, Your Choices: Planning for Future Medical Decisions,” a guide to writing a living will, from the main portion of its web site. That’s not quite right; a Website for the Puget Sound VA has done this, not the VA itself. But it’s [...]

This is the danger of relying too much on preliminary documents in a town where nothing’s final ’til it’s final. As the official summary of the compromise stimulus bill indicates, the Veterans Affairs Department will get $1.2 billion to repair medical facilities.
An earlier draft had indicated that that funding had been eliminated, as I reported [...]

House Veterans’ Affairs Committee Chairman Bob Filner predicts privatization plan will be disastrous.