New York Times and Fake News about the VA
Phillip Longman, author of Best Care Anywhere, has just done this excellent post in The Washington Monthly about the New York Times coverage of the VHA. People should contact the New York Times’s public editor to register their concerns about the continual bias in the Times coverage of the VHA. See also my stories in The American Prospect on this issue.
Please read Longman’s story. It is very important.
More Fake News about VA Hospitals
This time, the hapless New York Times is the culprit.
Donald Trump met with the heads of several monopolistic private health care corporations in Palm Beach on Wednesday. Bloomberg reports that “A person close to Marvel Entertainment CEO Ike Perlmutter said he also participated.” Trump was soliciting their advice on whether he should force the Veterans Health Administration (VA) to outsource more of the care of our nation’s veterans to monopolistic health care corporations. The comic book executive at least had no apparent conflicts of interests.
America’s major veterans groups, including the American Legion, Vietnam Veterans of America, and Paralyzed Veterans of America, which all strenuously oppose any moves to privatize the VA, were not invited. Stay tuned for the rest of the story. READ MORE
