

# Event Details

- **Event Name**: Friday rally against cuts to our VA benefits & VA medical care. 
- **Event Start and End Date**: Fri, 13 Mar, 2026 at 11:00 am – Fri, 13 Mar, 2026 at 01:00 pm
- **Event Description**: Please join our Friday peaceful rally against cuts to the VA which are harming veterans and weakening the entire US healthcare system, including cuts to: 
	•	Veterans healthcare
	•	Veterans benefits 
	•	VA employees’ union protection 
	•	In 2025 nearly 40,000 positions were lost due to early retirement, attrition and people being given incentives to leave their jobs. 
	•	In December 30,000 vital positions that had not been filled were Indiscriminately eliminated. This included roles like neurosurgeons, doctors and nurses.

We hear weekly that veterans are experiencing delays in communication and care. They are losing support groups, peer support, physicians and others providing direct care. We have lost safeguards to protect us from harm including autoclave sterilization technicians, equipment and supplies.

Here are some statistics as of September 2025.

The VA serves over 9 millions Veterans and
	•	 700,000 of their family members (through ChampVA). 
	•	Has over 170 VA medical centers and over 1900 outpatient sites. 

Research has consistently shown better outcomes for veterans who receive their care in the VA versus outcomes on major health indicators for people who receive care in the private sector.

	•	over 1.2 mil Veterans use snap 
	•	50% of Veterans use Medicare
	•	in California alone over 12% of Veterans ages 19 or older use medicaid

With threats to all of these programs, there is no way that the private healthcare system that we are all experiencing problems with can absorb caring for 9 million veterans who currently use the VA.

In 2025 the VA lost: 
	•	1700 RNs 
	•	1000 medical support assistants
	•	600 doctors
	•	200 police officers
	•	80 psychologists
	•	1000 Veteran claim examiners
	•	45% decrease in applications for open VA positions
	•	56% decrease in new employees starting jobs
	•	Only one critical skills incentive offered in 2025
	•	Retention incentives down more than 60%
	•	80% decrease in recruitment incentives

In spite of what we are hearing from upper VA management, there is a mass layoff/decrease in VA personnel in progress, while billions of dollars are being transferred from the VA to private healthcare corporations and providers.
 
This “community care” is 
	•	more expensive
	•	lacks oversight and accountability
	•	 is not adequate to care for Veterans specific problems
	•	has longer wait times 
	•	is not always available where veterans live,  particularly in rural areas. 

VA research funding has been slashed and this is something that harms all Americans. 
The shingles vaccine and cardiac pacemakers were developed as a result of VA research.

VA providers provide help to communities outside the VA during natural disasters and this will also no longer be possible.

Please come and help us spread the word in peace, love and unity with community as we raise our voices to keep VA care in the VA. 
Every Friday at the VA clinic south on Challenger Way from 11 to 1. 

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- **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/santa-rosa/friday-rally-against-cuts-to-our-va-benefits-and-va-medical-care/200029794790655
- **Event Categories**: health-wellness, nonprofit
- **Interested Audience**: 
  - total_interested_count: 1

## Ticket Details

- **Ticket URL**: http://facebook.com/200029794790655?utm_source=AllEvents.in&utm_medium=event-discovery-platform&utm_campaign=santa+rosa-events

## Event venue details

- **city**: Santa Rosa
- **state**: CA
- **country**: United States
- **location**: VA Clinic SOUTH, 2285 Challenger Way, Santa Rosa Ca. 
- **lat**: 38.42339
- **long**: -122.75226
- **full address**: VA Clinic SOUTH, 2285 Challenger Way, Santa Rosa Ca. , Santa Rosa VA Clinic, 2285 Challenger Way, Santa Rosa, CA 95407, United States
- **location**: VA Clinic SOUTH, 2285 Challenger Way, Santa Rosa Ca.

## Event gallery

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  - **Image URL**: https://dyn-image.allevents.in/generate-image?v=4&title=Friday+rally+against+cuts+to+our+VA+benefits+%26+VA+medical+care.+&date=Fri%2C+13+Mar%2C+2026+at+11%3A00+am&bg=1
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## FAQs

- **Q**: When is the event happening?
  - **A:** Fri, 13 Mar, 2026 at 11:00 am
- **Q**: Where is the event happening?
  - **A:** VA Clinic SOUTH, 2285 Challenger Way, Santa Rosa Ca. , Santa Rosa VA Clinic, 2285 Challenger Way, Santa Rosa, CA 95407, United States
- **Q**: What type of event is this?
  - **A:** health-wellness, nonprofit
- **Q**: Where can I find ticket details about Friday rally against cuts to our VA benefits & VA medical care.  ?
  - **A:** You can find ticket details about this event on AllEvents.

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