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Perry O’Brien of Camden is a U.S. Army veteran who served in Afghanistan. He is Senior Campaign’s director at Common Defense. Suzanne Gordon is a healthcare journalist and senior policy analyst at The Veterans Healthcare Policy Institute.

Over the past several months, veterans and their caregivers in Maine have protested the fact that Secretary of the Department of Veterans Affairs Doug Collins has curtailed VA research , canceled contracts that provide VA patients with critical services, and now plans to eliminate 30,000 VA staff .

According to Collins , none of these policies will stop 9 milli

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