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Veterans could decide the midterms, and the VA is why

Navy veteran Mark Miller and Marine veteran Enrique Ramos Jr. both died at the Audie L. Murphy hospital in San Antonio

By Mark Lucas , Darin Selnick Fox News

Published May 2, 2026 9:25pm EDT

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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........

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