My idea, as I believe I said before, is to pass the care for vets down to the states and private institutions. The VA has jumped the shark and is one big, lifelong bungle. If some federal funding is necessary to support such an arrangement, fine, but I hope even that wouldn’t be necessary.
VA: The Motor Vehicle Administration for wounded veterans.
The prudent way to handle this is to provide federal vouchers for private healthcare that would meet most soldiers’ needs, close most of the VA hospitals, clinics and CBOCs and leave open just a few key military hospitals such as Walter Reed and Bethesda. The private health care industry can provide quality care and the government can save millions closing all these inefficient hospitals and clinics and selling the equipment and buildings to the private sector. Sort of like the Army base closures, this can be done in steps. The government would still honor their commitment to veterans but they would be doing it by paying the freight for private medical care.