45.00% - Veterans deserve the best healthcare we can offer — not the leftovers of a bureaucracy that can't be fired for failure.
25.00% - Employer-based health insurance was a WWII accident — companies used benefits to compete under wage controls — and there's no good reason to still tie healthcare to your job.
17.50% - Veterans gave up years, health, and sometimes families for this country — the underfunded VA and inadequate mental health services they get in return are a national disgrace.
12.50% - Head Start, DARE, ethanol mandates, Cash for Clunkers — programs studies proved don't work, kept running anyway because someone's job depended on it.
The VA has some of the worst wait times and administrative failures in American healthcare.
24.65% - Veterans deserve the best healthcare we can offer — not the leftovers of a bureaucracy that can't be fired for failure.
21.43% - The VA varies dramatically — some facilities are excellent, others are unconscionable failures. The solution is accountability and competition, not universal defense or universal condemnation.
16.89% - Veterans gave up years, health, and sometimes families for this country — the underfunded VA and inadequate mental health services they get in return are a national disgrace.
6.79% - Employer-based health insurance was a WWII accident — companies used benefits to compete under wage controls — and there's no good reason to still tie healthcare to your job.
6.79% - The VA regularly ranks higher on many measures vs. private healthcare.
6.17% - Private health insurance is also a bureaucratic nightmare of prior authorizations, denied claims, and narrow networks — the current system gives you private greed and government inflexibility.
6.17% - Basic healthcare is a fundamental human right.
5.56% - A single-payer healthcare system is inherently more efficient than having multiple public and private payers.
5.56% - Government efforts to address homelessness are an effective way to help struggling veterans.
33.33% - The VA has some of the worst wait times and administrative failures in American healthcare.
33.33% - Veterans deserve a healthcare system that delivers timely care, not one defined by waiting.
33.33% - The VA has some of the longest wait times and worst administrative failures in American healthcare.
0.00% - The VA healthcare system fails to meet the needs of veterans.
50.00% - 2014 Veterans Health Administration controversy