The sad truth is that the UNIONS are still in control and the incompetent VA still determines who gets care and when.
Currently, the Federal Reserve is keying up electronic scrip at the rate of $75 billion dollars per month to spend half on buying T-bills (can you say pay one credit card with another?) and to spend the other half on Mortgage Backed Securities from the NYSE....EVERY MONTH?
They cut this back from $85 billion per month for the prior 4.5 years but still are at their ‘Quantitative Easing’.
How hard would it be to divert one fifth of one month’s bribes to make this Veteran thing happen.
This just shows you the damned duplicity and evil that makes up the Democrat Party and those that control this government. It’s goddam disgraceful.
I heard that this new VA Bill is a joke and is nothing more than a hand out to the unions. I hope what I heard was just uninformed speculation.
I have been waiting over 3 months to get info that a MRI I need for my hip has been scheduled. The VA hospital is over 90 miles away. While there are 2 major hospitals within walking distance of the local VA Clinic that ordered the MRI. Matter of fact I walked to one for the initial X-rays from which the VA determined I needed a MRI.
I say abolish the VA and just give eligible veterans a “Choice Card” to use at any participating health care facility. The cost of the VA bureaucracy, maintaining often antiquated physical facilities and the cost of VA medical personnel is enormous. Let the “Choice Card” be handled like Medicare through private fiscal intermediaries. This would give veterans better access to care and drastically cut the federal bureaucracy.
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Obama caused most of the current problem when he stopped allowing “fee based” appointments to the outside doctors and hospitals like colonoscopies which in our Chattanooga area were done at Park Ridge Hospital...
when Obama made veterans go to Murfreesboro or Nashville and still required a driver to go with the patient, many veterans just didn’t go to appointments..
for instance what driver can take a whole day off work to go 350 miles round trip and wait at the hospital for the veteran.....
It was difficult for veterans to get tests done in those cases..
During the time of fee base drivers veterans could get early morning appointments for colonoscopies starting a 7AM meaning the extra driver could be at work with at most only an hour or 2 late..
Obama has been saving money for his pet illegal aliens for years..
hair dos for illegal aliens have priority over colonoscopies for American veterans...
V A ping.