VHIERS + PHIERS
Honor Their Service.
Protect Their Future.
End the wars. Bring our troops home safely. Care for them when they get here.
A Veterans Day tribute from VHIERS and PHIERS, with Will Price and The CREW at KUBU.
A Veterans Day tribute from VHIERS and PHIERS
“Thank you for your service” should mean something after Veterans Day is over.
OUR COMMITMENT TO VETERANS
You served.
You were promised care.
Your care should not depend on whether you qualify for the VA.
PHIERS’ NATIONWIDE HEALTHCARE MODEL
Nearly $2 trillionin projected annual savings
The complete-care model includes hospital, specialist and catastrophic care. The reconciled scenario projects $1.743 trillion in annual net savings.
The money is already allocated.
Change how it is spent.
Put money we already pay for healthcare to better use. Spend less on medications and routine care, expand care, and return a share of net savings as monthly checks for the majority of Americans.
Explore the healthcare plan and financial case →Care beyond VA eligibility: healthcare, choices and support
Healthcare. Housing. Meaningful work. Support for caregivers. People who follow through.
And every serious effort to prevent another generation from being sent into wars of aggression.
Veterans who rely on Medicare, Medicaid, employer coverage and other care outside the VA deserve the same commitment. Cutting the safety net hurts veterans and their families too.
Rural veterans should not have to drive hours for care. Veterans in cities should not be left waiting at overwhelmed clinics. Getting help should not mean getting lost between systems.
Care for the whole person.
Lower medication purchasing costs. Affordable TeleCARE. Mental healthcare. Hospital, specialist and catastrophic care included in the complete-care model.
Protect people’s choices.
Voluntary participation. Private-insurance choice. Care that reaches veterans wherever they receive it—not only inside the VA.
Build a future worth coming home to.
Meaningful work. Housing. Support for caregivers. Stronger local providers and a stronger safety net.
Why the savings figures changed—and why rising costs matter
Earlier PHIERS models projected $2.7 trillion in annual savings using a different measurement basis. Today’s complete-care model uses an updated scope and cost assumptions.
Prices and access also change. Shortages, supply-chain disruptions, reduced ACA subsidies and federal staffing and funding cuts—including DOGE-era cuts—can make affordable care harder to reach.
As affordable care becomes harder to find, lower medication purchasing costs and affordable TeleCARE become more valuable. If conventional costs rise faster than PHIERS’ costs, the potential savings grow.
See the healthcare plan and financial model →Background on access and cost pressures
Congress must act now. Advance PHIERS—or bring a better plan and show the numbers.
Honor the past.
Black Americans helped defeat racial tyranny abroad while enduring it at home.
The Red Tails’ exceptional bomber-protection record and the Black Panthers’ relentless service deserve a central place in our national memory.
Red Tails and the 761st Tank Battalion
The Red Tails protected lives with extraordinary skill and discipline.
In a documented comparison of four Fifteenth Air Force P-51 groups, the 332nd had the fewest escorted-bomber losses to enemy aircraft - both in total and per escort mission.
The Black Panthers of the 761st Tank Battalion endured 183 days of continuous combat. They fought across Europe, helping defeat the Nazi regime while serving a country that denied them equality.
Holocaust survivor Sonia Schreiber Weitz remembered a Black American liberator in her poem, The Black Messiah. Many Holocaust survivors went on to help build modern Israel.
Remembering liberation should strengthen our commitment to protect life today.
Their families asked me to speak.
Family members of the Tuskegee Airmen and the 761st Tank Battalion have personally asked me to demand a ceasefire.
I carry their appeal forward.
Honor their relatives’ service. Protect civilians. Prevent another generation from suffering the horrors they fought to end.
- Will Price
Protect the future.
Don’t send them to war and forget them at home.
Veterans deserve care that follows them across appointments, providers, and communities - and support that addresses the whole person.
VHIERS brings together our proposed approach to healthcare, housing, employment, information sharing, and coordinated support.
The vision includes all veterans, including those receiving nothing from the VA, along with caregivers and the people helping them rebuild their lives.
VHIERS: V is for Veterans. Supporting veterans and service members. PHIERS: P is for the People. Supporting civilians. Together, we care for all Americans.
Explore the healthcare plan and financial case →How VHIERS, PHIERWorks, and PHIERPlace fit together
VHIERS - the Veterans Health Insurance Endowment and Referral System - is our proposed healthcare and support framework.
PHIERWorks connects the vision to sustainable job training and placement.
PHIERPlace brings support around the whole person - mind, body, and spirit - including housing, healthcare, and employment.
The Veterans Health Information Exchange and Reporting System, also VHIERS, is the proposed information backbone for connecting care wherever veterans receive it.
The goal: fewer gaps, better follow-through, and people working together around the veteran.
THE WORK CONTINUES
Serving veterans since 2007. See the record.
This commitment didn’t begin with this tribute.
Explore the recordings and earlier work that helped shape today’s VHIERS and PHIERS vision.
- 2007
Where the work began
Where the work began — 2007
Will’s work creating video resources for wounded service members and their families began in 2007.
This presentation demonstrates a personalized guide to navigating military healthcare, preparing children to visit an injured loved one, and delivering information in accessible formats and different languages.
The purpose was simple: the right information, for the right person, when it matters most.
Early wounded-service-member and family guide
- 2014
PHIERS and Patriot
PHIERS and Patriot — 2014
In this historical presentation, PHIERS and Patriot Medical Transport Systems describe their collaboration around transportation, referrals, health information, and follow-up support for veterans.
Patriot representatives explain their existing work with Maryland’s Commitment to Veterans and the proposed expansion with PHIERS.
This is a record of the relationship and the proposed work - not a claim that the joint pilot subsequently launched.
PHIERS and Patriot
- 2023
PHIER-Powered Unions
Watch PHIER-Powered Unions — Labor Day 2023
PHIER-Powered Unions — Labor Day 2023
Veterans, unions, and working together
These earlier presentations show the continuing effort to connect healthcare, collective purchasing, meaningful work, and support.
Don’t Send Them to War and Forget Them at Home
Why I left the VA
Twenty years inside the VA system — Senior Analyst on Electronic Health Records, Registration, Eligibility, and Enrollment. VistA. The actual machinery that determines whether veterans receive care or fall through the cracks. One of five civilians selected for the VA’s first enterprise-wide reengineering initiative.
I served as lead integration engineer on the VA’s Electronic Health Record Modernization project.
I left determined to help more veterans by connecting care and support wherever they receive it.
The mission stayed with me.
- Will Price
Three generations. One commitment to service.
My father’s military service helped shape my commitment. This video connects that history with Black leadership, community cooperation, healthcare, and the future we can build.
Race Matters: The Value We Bring and the Future We Can Build
A debt to life. A call for peace.
Honor those who helped save lives by protecting life now.
No government is above accountability. Calling a war holy does not put military decisions beyond moral judgment.
Hope for Humanity — why this conversation matters
“Black Americans fought racial tyranny abroad while enduring it at home. Our soldiers helped defeat Nazism and save Jewish lives. In our exchange, Rabbi Mendy Cohen acknowledged that history.
He also acknowledged that I am not antisemitic and agreed that anti-Zionism and antisemitism are different. Our disagreement over Zionism did not erase our friendship or my love for Jewish people. To me, remembering liberation creates a debt to life: honor those who helped save yours by protecting the lives of others.
That is why I oppose Palestinian suffering and military escalation with Iran. Our ancestors’ sacrifices should inspire us to prevent another catastrophe - not accept one as inevitable.”
- Will Price, reflecting on his exchange with Rabbi Mendy Cohen
Hope for Humanity
Why watch from the beginning?
The opening exchange challenges arguments used to justify war with Iran and sets up our call to protect life.
A Peaceful Warrior — recorded in 2023
A personal appeal to Benjamin Netanyahu connecting Black veterans’ extraordinary service with a demand for a ceasefire and an end to Palestinian suffering.
Created long before this moment. Still calling us to act.
A Peaceful Warrior
The Energy of Hope
A spiritual reflection on hope, purpose, and taking responsibility for the future we want to create.
Hope gives us a reason to act.
The Energy of Hope
Thank you, Al Wilson.
Thank you for what we began together.
Our work on the Manhattan Project carried a purpose bigger than either of us: to change the way the world sees Black men - forever and for good, through work that benefits everyone.
That purpose continues.
Congress: honor their service with action.
We do not have to wait for another election to demand accountability.
We are asking public officials to stop military escalation, pursue peace, advance complete healthcare - or offer something better - and establish monthly checks from a share of realized net healthcare savings.
Your first step is simple: sign the Petition.
Where evidence indicates wrongdoing, we demand investigation and lawful consequences - including prosecution where warranted and applicable constitutional removal processes.
How written commitments become a public record
The Public Trust Covenant asks candidates and officeholders to put their commitments in writing, explain disagreements or alternatives, and answer publicly for their actions and results.
Signing begins public evaluation. It is not a PHIERS endorsement or automatic agreement with every PHIERS proposal.
When the qualifying threshold is reached, PHIERS delivers and documents the public town-hall request. PAM tracks the response, commitments, actions, and results.
PAM—the People’s Accountability Model, also called the PHIERS Accountability Model—is how we track promises, money, work and results.
People sign. PHIERS delivers the demand. Officials answer. PAM tracks what happens next.
What will you do?
By when?
How will the people know?
Keep the conversation moving.
The CREW at KUBU brings these conversations to Vell’s View and In the Zone: veterans, healthcare, peace, practical solutions, and public accountability.
Hosts’ and guests’ views do not necessarily reflect those of KUBU, its management, staff, or volunteers. Station names and logos do not imply endorsement.
Honor the past. Care for those here today. Protect those who come next.
Survey = Direction · Petition = Strength · Covenant = Commitment · PAM = Accountability
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