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    Hedge Fund Titan Trying to Privatize the VA?

    Hedge Fund Titan Trying to Privatize the VA?

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    New article in The Nation.

    Is This Hedge-Fund Titan Greasing the Levers for Privatizing the Veterans Health Administration?

    Billionaire Steven A. Cohen funds an expanding network of private clinics for veterans—and he’s personally hired five lobbyists in Washington.

    By Jasper Craven and Suzanne Gordon

    April 10, 2018

    Is This Hedge-Fund Titan Greasing the Levers for Privatizing the Veterans Health Administration?

    Billionaire Steven A. Cohen funds an expanding network of private clinics for veterans—and he’s personally hired five lobbyists in Washington.

    By Jasper Craven and Suzanne Gordon

    Yesterday 10:32 am

    Steven Cohen

    Hedge-fund manager Steven Cohen speaks at an investment conference in Las Vegas in 2011. (Reuters / Steve Marcus)

    On March 28, via Twitter, President Donald Trump publicly dismissed David Shulkin, the embattled veterans-affairs secretary. Almost immediately, Shulkin fired back with an op-ed in The New York Times, charging that conservatives had pushed him out because of his resistance to outsourcing health care at the Department of Veterans Affairs. “They saw me as an obstacle to privatization who had to be removed,” Shulkin wrote. “That is because I am convinced that privatization is a political issue aimed at rewarding select people and companies with profits, even if it undermines care for veterans.” Though Shulkin did not mention specific names, the group of privatization advocates he alluded to includes hospital CEOs, business leaders, and the Koch brothers.

    Among the most significant of these players is a hedge-fund titan named Steven A. Cohen. READ MORE

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    • S. Jenika April 14, 2018
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      The VA is not broke – the only “fixing” it needs is more staff and equipment.
      The system itself is good as it gives the veterans care they deserve and need. Running it into the ground for a profit is should not even be on the radar.

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