VA readies massive contract for veterans’ private sector health care

The Department of Veterans Affairs is preparing to issue what’s likely to become one of the largest service contracts in government history as it restructures its arrangements, aiming for rigorous management of the department’s role as a health care payer and greater competition among health care management firms. The massive contract vehicle represents only the second time VA has signed large contracts with health plans to coordinate private sector care for veterans. The first was shortly after the MISSION Act was signed in 2018. Those contracts are now expiring, and…

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Clean energy sector swings Republican with US campaign donations – Business Insider

StreetInsider.com Clean energy sector swings Republican with US campaign donationsBusiness InsiderBy Nichola Groom. (Reuters) – U.S. solar and wind energy companies have donated far more money to Republicans than Democrats in congressional races this election cycle, according to a Reuters analysis of campaign finance data, an unprecedented tilt to …Clean energy sector swings Republican with U.S. campaign donationsStreetInsider.com all 67 news articles » us republicans – Google News

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Clean energy sector swings Republican with US campaign donations – Reuters

Reuters Clean energy sector swings Republican with US campaign donationsReutersIn 2014, 70 percent of the contributions from seven major wind and solar PACs went to Democrats. The U.S. solar and wind industries have expanded greatly over the last decade and now employ some 300,000 workers nationwide, nearly six times more than …and more » us republicans – Google News

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