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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsSen. Bernie Sanders: Shulkin's Ouster Is Really All About Koch Brothers' Privatization Push
Sen. Bernie Sanders: Shulkin's Ouster Is Really All About Koch Brothers' Privatization Push
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2018/04/01/sen-bernie-sanders-shulkins-ouster-really-all-about-koch-brothers-privatization-push
U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) said Sunday that President Donald Trump's ouster of Secretary of Veterans Affairs David Shulkin is rooted in a Koch brothers-led effort to hand federal agencies over to private corporations.
"This is part of a broader approach of the Trump administration," the senator, a member of the Veterans Affairs Committee, told CNN's "State of the Union."
Sanders' interview with host Jake Tapper comes days after Shulkin wrote in a New York Times op-ed that "advocates within the administration for privatizing V.A. health services [...] saw me as an obstacle to privatization who had to be removed."
As Common Dreams noted last week, "the VA has long been a major target of Charles and David Koch, who have used their 'front group' Concerned Veterans for America to advocate pushing veterans into the private healthcare market and sharply reducing the department's budget."
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2018/04/01/sen-bernie-sanders-shulkins-ouster-really-all-about-koch-brothers-privatization-push
U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) said Sunday that President Donald Trump's ouster of Secretary of Veterans Affairs David Shulkin is rooted in a Koch brothers-led effort to hand federal agencies over to private corporations.
"This is part of a broader approach of the Trump administration," the senator, a member of the Veterans Affairs Committee, told CNN's "State of the Union."
Sanders' interview with host Jake Tapper comes days after Shulkin wrote in a New York Times op-ed that "advocates within the administration for privatizing V.A. health services [...] saw me as an obstacle to privatization who had to be removed."
As Common Dreams noted last week, "the VA has long been a major target of Charles and David Koch, who have used their 'front group' Concerned Veterans for America to advocate pushing veterans into the private healthcare market and sharply reducing the department's budget."
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Sen. Bernie Sanders: Shulkin's Ouster Is Really All About Koch Brothers' Privatization Push (Original Post)
Hassin Bin Sober
Apr 2018
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Aren't most of Trump's cabinet picks eager to do the same? Education, mining in parks, etc
dameatball
Apr 2018
#1
Yep. Though I don't think any other Cabinet level people have blown the whistle.
Hassin Bin Sober
Apr 2018
#2
I think I read once somewhere that 40% of the population is on some form of government health care.
Hassin Bin Sober
Apr 2018
#7
dameatball
(7,398 posts)1. Aren't most of Trump's cabinet picks eager to do the same? Education, mining in parks, etc
Hassin Bin Sober
(26,330 posts)2. Yep. Though I don't think any other Cabinet level people have blown the whistle.
dameatball
(7,398 posts)3. True. He did put it right out there.
mountain grammy
(26,624 posts)4. K&R
aggiesal
(8,918 posts)5. We should just get Medicare for all ...
Then the VA would be part of that system and would do
everything hospitals do, plus cater to specific military injuries.
Hassin Bin Sober
(26,330 posts)7. I think I read once somewhere that 40% of the population is on some form of government health care.
We can't sustain a system where the for-profits skim the cream off the top when you are young and healthy then pawn you off when you are old and sick.
MariaCSR
(642 posts)6. Social Security is next.
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)8. I'm glad Sanders spoke up about this.
The more people know, the less likely they are to succeed.
VOTE DEMOCRAT TO TAKE CONTROL OF CONGRESS: 216 days from now!
leftstreet
(36,109 posts)9. DURec