Veterans could decide the midterms, and the VA is Why

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Veterans helped deliver Republican victories in 2024. In 2026, VA reform could decide whether they show up again. Two bills before Congress would fix the system that has failed them: the Veterans' ACCESS Act and the Veterans' Bill of Rights Act. Yet Democrats in Washington have a different priority: using the VA as a blueprint for nationalized health care.They aren't hiding it. Progressive influencer Ezra Klein called Phillip Longman's Best Care Anywhere: Why VA Health Care Would Work Better For Everyone one of the most important social policy books of the last decade. Read that subtitle again. The left isn't just defending the VA — it wants to impose that model on every American. Doug Collins, the Trump administration Secretary of Veterans Affairs (Samuel Corum/Getty Images)In 2014, a major scandal rocked the Phoenix VA Health Care System. Officials there ran a deliberate criminal scheme, creating secret unofficial waiting lists to hide how badly the system was failing. As many as 1,700 veterans were kept off the official electronic wait list to inflate reported wait times and protect bonuses. Veterans were forced to wait months — in some cases up to 115 days