“Donald Trump wants to throw veterans to the wolves,” American Federation of Government Employees National President J. David Cox Sr. said in a statement. “Private healthcare for veterans would be an expensive disaster, and no one should be fooled into believing otherwise.
Mr. Trump announced the plan Monday at a speech in Virginia Beach, Va., as a way to address the inefficiencies the agency has struggled with over the past few years. However, Mr. Cox vehemently disagreed that privatization would improve the VA system. “Trump’s claims that privatization would improve care and cut costs are dead wrong. He is writing a blank check to huge hospital corporations to profit off the suffering of veterans,” Mr. Cox said in the statement.
He also denounced the candidate for taking up the issue “on a whim” and said that Mr. Trump did not support VA privatization last fall.
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