MANCHESTER, N.H.—Hillary Rodham Clinton is outlining steps to improve the Department of Veterans Affairs, pushing back against calls by Republicans to privatize the sprawling health care system for those who have served in the military.
The Democratic presidential candidate planned to discuss a package of proposals for veterans at a New Hampshire town hall meeting on Tuesday. Her pre-Veterans Day event comes as Republicans have questioned her commitment to veterans.
“I would like to see us have a top-to-bottom analysis of everything in the VA,” Clinton said last week in Iowa. She said she was concerned about calls by Republicans to privatize VA services “because I do not believe that will work. We will have too many veterans who will be left out or denied the care they need.”
Clinton’s plan would seek fundamental changes to veterans’ health care “to ensure veterans’ access to timely and high quality health care and block efforts to privatize” the Veterans Health Administration, her campaign said in an outline of the plan.
