Inside the Fight to Reduce the Government’s Role in Veterans Health Care

Government Executive: It’s an old refrain: run government like a business. But to the naysayer, it can sound an awful lot like a much less agreeable suggestion: turn government into a business.

That’s what a congressionally-chartered commission of reformers tasked with overhauling the way the government provides health care to veterans is up against. A subgroup of that commission has proposed what its members see as a means of harvesting the ingenuity and resources of the private sector; detractors of the proposal see only an ideological ploy to shrink the government and privatize veterans care, consequences be damned.

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