Over the next two decades? It needs to be fixed now.
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Gotta boost the Obamacare enrollment numbers somehow.
This is pretty much what most military individuals have been suggesting for 50 years. The way that the VA is set up and organized....it will never be cost-effective.
More proof that government “healthcare” is doomed to fail every time. Obamacare is not long for this world either. “Single payer” will not work unless the “single payer” is the one who receives the medical care.
Between unemployment victims, veterans, employer dumping incentives, prisons, welfare baby mammas, and illegal immigrants, Obamacare should be just booming.
Side benefit for the regime: no one would go into the military.
Just give every vet with a disability a debit card good only for medical care and prescription drugs and be done with it.
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Most of the medical people are OK.
The problem is the administrative personnel.
I wouldn’t even fire them.
I would treat the VA bureaucrats like they treat the Veterans.
Screw their pay and benefits up and then deny that there is a problem. After a year of no pay, they’ll leave on their own.
Here is an idea. Just think about this. Take all the money spent on the VA and figure out EXACTLY how many folks are in need of care that Qualify. Get rid of ALL VA,... facilities, people, doctors, etc. Every year, right each veteran a check for a distributive amount.
I have no idea but can only guess, each veteran would get tens of thousands of dollars each year and could well afford to buy their own insurance and cover some deductibles. I would bet each vet would get $40K to $50K per year for what the government wastes.
Somebody fact check me on that, it’s only a supposition.
The best medical care I ever had was at the VA and their warfighter specialty programs are unique and unsurpassed.
5-10% above Medicare/Medicaide would ensure Vets have no access when needed and when they get access they won't get the care they need.
The RIGHT answer is to fix VA by firing, permanently, Regional Directors who don't deliver. And Hospital/Clinic Directors too.
Ask any vet in the Norcal or Seattle area systems and you will hear nothing but praise. Texas is supposed to be quite good as well...as is Nevada.
So, do VA docs have to buy malpractice insurance? Or are they protected. Been to some outside docs under the choice program and another one that is kinda sub-contracted to the VA. Strange set up indeed.
The Gubment obviously told the group and "coached" on what to "conclude" long before they started. Bunch of weak-kneed pukes.
Most of the Dr’s. I see at the V.A. are from Loyola Medical Center.