About Project 2025 and Veterans
Project 2025 would privatize more veteran care, including privatizing TRICARE.
Republican Project 2025 Takes Dead Aim at Veterans' Health and Disability Benefits
- Project 2025 calls for significant reductions to veterans' health care services and disability benefits
- veterans could lose access to VA health care for issues that "don't align" with their service-related conditions
- Project 2025 also calls for VA hospitals to outsource more care into costly private facilities
- Project 2025 also endorses the revival of a scuttled Trump-era commission largely aimed at downsizing and even closing VA hospitals
- Project 2025 would cut veterans' hard-earned disability benefits
Starkest Threat to Veterans' Benefits Is Project 2025, Another Trump Administration - APWU
Project 2025 would cut benefits for disabled Veterans, reducing the number of medical conditions that qualify for disability status. It would also automate all disability claims, making it easier to increase denial rates.
The Veterans Administration (VA) health system is also targeted by Project 2025. It plans to eliminate VA hospitals and health clinics and replace them with privatized outpatient clinics. This would have an especially considerable impact on Veterans living in rural areas. Project 2025 even calls for the privatization of TRICARE, the active duty service members (ADSMs) health system, threatening to drive up health care costs for millions of servicemembers and their families.
Why Project 2025 Is Bad News for Wounded Veterans Like Me - Common Dreams
I urge all veterans and non-veterans to pay close attention to the anti-VA messages that are being broadcast by folks whose main goal is to send veterans to private sector doctors and hospitals.