Americas Public Healthcare System
What\u2019s America\u2019s largest public healthcare system?\xa0 It\u2019s not Medicare, which isn\u2019t a provider of healthcare, just a payer.\xa0 It\u2019s the Veterans Health Administration, which looks after nine million ex-service members.\xa0 Healthcare journalist Suzanne Gordon discusses why we should care about the Veterans Health Administration \u2013 and the push to privatize it.\nResources:\nSuzanne Gordon, Wounds of War: How the VA Delivers Health, Healing, and Hope to the Nation\u2019s Veterans Cornell University Press, 2018\nVeterans Healthcare Policy Institute\nSuzanne Gordon & Jasper Craven, \u201cTrump\u2019s Under-the-Radar Push to Dismantle Veterans Health Care,\u201d The American Prospect January 15, 2019\n\xa0\nThe post America\u2019s Public Healthcare System appeared first on KPFA.