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FILE PHOTO: Democratic 2020 U.S. presidential candidate Senator Bernie Sanders speaks during a Climate Crisis Summit with Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez at Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa, U.S. November 9, 2019. REUTERS/Scott Morgan
To mark Monday’s U.S. Veterans Day holiday honoring those who served in the military, Sanders vowed to fill nearly 50,000 slots for doctors, nurses and other medical professionals at facilities run by Veterans Affairs during his first year in office. “We will not dismantle or privatize the VA. We will expand and improve the VA,” Sanders, a U.S. senator and a former chairman of the Senate’s Veterans’ Affairs Committee, said in a statement.
Sanders’ proposal would build on his work with Republican Senator John McCain, who died in 2018, on a 2014 bill to expand veterans’ access to healthcare after a scandal over long wait times.
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