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Friend,
Captain Sam Brown knows the sacrifice and struggles of our wounded warriors.
He understands where the government falls short in providing veterans
healthcare and how to improve it. We need his leadership in the U.S. Senate.
Please scroll down to read Sam’s latest op-ed in the Reno Gazette Journal
about this important issue.
Bringing change to the insider's game
– Sam Brown
Reno Gazette Journal
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“If they hadn’t received this medication, they would’ve gone blind,” the voice
said through the phone.
Working 10-hour shifts at a Reno Amazon warehouse is about as grueling as it
sounds. After a long day of work, I’d sit down around the dinner table with my
family, share supper and conversation, and work late hours into the night
applying what I’d learned from earning my MBA towards starting a small business.
I served our nation in uniform before, but this time it was my mission to
serve fellow veterans.
My wife Amy, also an Army veteran, and I use the VA for our primary health
care, so we’re very familiar with what it does well and where it comes up short.
In 2018, I founded my Reno-based business which filled a gap in veterans care
when the VA was unable to provide same-day medications. We worked to ensure
every veteran, from the East Coast to the Pacific Islands and regions between,
received their medications the same day they were referred to us, without any
out-of-pocket expenses.
The VA isn’t perfect. Ask any veteran, and I’m sure they, too, have their own
stories to share.
Still, there have been concerted efforts to improve standards and care. Under
President Trump, the VA MISSION Act attempted to fix the VA health care system,
hold its failed administrators accountable, modernize VA facilities, and expand
care choices for veterans.
Perhaps most importantly, his reforms established standards on wait times and
the distance a veteran must travel to receive care — so that veterans don’t
spend long hours waiting for an appointment or drive far distances to see a
doctor.
The VA MISSION Act made it possible for veterans to seek care outside of the
system, from community care providers. It gave veterans the power to make the
best choices for their health care, expanding and improving the Veterans Choice
Program that allowed veterans to go to civilian doctors. As highlighted in a
2024 VA Red Team report, it’s something veterans want.
As common sense as this sounds, the D.C. bureaucrats don’t like it. They’d
rather see control, and all that money, centralized to government-run
facilities. In fact, big government politicians, including Senator Jacky Rosen,
voted against providing funding for the Veterans Choice Program.
Meanwhile, the Biden administration has slashed care for veterans, pushing
veterans away from community care back to the socialized system VA system. It’s
resulted in longer wait times for an appointment and longer travel distances to
see a doctor — putting some veterans in life-or-death circumstances that would
have been unimaginable if the MISSION Act was allowed to operate as conceived.
At the North Las Vegas VA Medical Center, for example, new veteran patients
must wait at least 108 days to receive primary care. It’s outrageous.
Where has Jacky Rosen been as Joe Biden (who she votes with 98% of the time)
systematically rolled back and dismantled the health care improvements that so
many veterans have counted on? She’s chosen silence over speaking out; party
politics over veterans care. Jacky refuses to do the right thing and push back
against Biden’s attacks.
Too many of us have been left behind by this system, and veterans issues have
been politicized to the point where party disputes lead to no solutions. That’s
what happens when you have a room full of politicians, not veterans, running
our country.
It’s one of the reasons I’m running to be your senator. I’ve seen how
government operates, where it falls short, and how we can improve it. It takes
an outsider willing to fight to truly bring change to the insider’s game. I did
it in the private sector for veterans, and I’ll do it in the U.S. Senate.
I heard the care provider’s voice through the phone, bringing me back from my
thoughts.
“If they hadn’t received this medication, they would’ve gone blind.”
I remembered the patient. The VA couldn’t fill the prescription; reimbursement
rates wouldn’t cover the ingredient cost of this specialty medication.
Thankfully, the provider reached out, and I volunteered to cover the costs.
“Thank you for stepping in and making sure the veteran got this specialty
compound medication. You saved their eyesight,” the provider said.
Sam Brown is an author, small businessman, and retired U.S. Army Captain. He
is the Republican nominee for U.S. Senate in Nevada.
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