TAKE ACTION: PETITION TO #SAVEMYVA FROM AIR COMMISSION CLOSURES

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On March 14th, VA Secretary Denis McDonough issued recommendations destined for review by the Asset and Infrastructure Review (AIR) Commission, a board created by the 2018 VA MISSION Act, a bill designed to promote vast privatization of VA healthcare. If approved, Sec. McDonough's recommendations would:

Close large segments of the VA health care system, including at least 17 integrated VA medical centers around the country including here in NYC
Destroy tens of thousands of union jobs in communities across the country
Deny veterans their preferred choice in health care providers
Force our nation’s heroes to find their own care from a patchwork of for-profit providers
VA leadership in Washington D.C. claims it has no choice but to follow the MISSION Act. This legislation dictates that they must close dozens of VA medical centers, clinics, treatment centers and nursing homes and drastically cut outpatient & inpatient services at hundreds of additional locations. It's time for VA workers, veterans, and all Americans to demand that our local, state, and national leaders put a stop to this assault on veterans’ care. It’s time to let the air out of the AIR Commission, halt the Senate confirmation of AIR commissioners, and repeal Title 2 of the MISSION Act. Closing VA facilities must be entirely off the table. Our promise to veterans will not be broken and this closure commission must be stopped. Click here to sign the petition!

https://www.nycclc.org/news/2022-04/take-action-petition-savemyva-air-commission-closures

Anybody have any information on this AIR act. Doesn't sound good to me. More of the tRump MAGA shit?

[marie999]

1. I use many non-VA doctors,

but only because the only VA care I have near me is a VA clinic which I go to for primary care, psychiatry, blood work, and vaccines. For everything else, the nearest VA clinic is 65 miles away and even that one doesn't have certain specialists like optometry and gastroenterology. It is time that Congress allocates enough money for the VA to do what it is supposed to do for veterans.