I have to agree with them. I have Medicare, Corp. retirement insurance and the VA. I prefer the VA... At least in my area they are great.
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One of the top management got fired a year or so ago for VA mismanagement. Either the VA’s doing the job right or they’re not.
Which is it?
I’ve had nothing but great service and care at my local VA clinic and hospital.
In a government run health care system like Canada and especially the UK, there are plenty of stories of ‘good service’ to go around.
But then there are the waiting list stories of people waiting for care and sometimes dying.
If they are numerous enough, they become news.
The VA is such a government run healthcare system.
Veterans should have all options available to them for care if they are on a waiting list somewhere and not getting the treatment they need as we have learned in the last year or two.
Memphis VA is where vets go to get poor service and die. It has to do with the number of affirmative action hires at the facility.
If you have to drive 90 miles and/or wait for 2 weeks for an appointment, just ain’t right.
Most of the medical people are OK.
The bureaucrats are organized crime.
You don’t have to fight with every VA bureaucrat.
You only have to control the VA employee pay computer.
Turnabout is fair play.
Stop paying the bad ones. Blame it on a computer glitch. Make them fill out a form. Lose the form. Make them fill out another form. Leave it on a desk for six months. Tell them to call the Inspector General. Don’t answer the calls. Take messages and ignore them. Tell them there is no record of them ever being a VA employee. Call them belligerent and have the armed guards standing behind them.
Treat them like they treat the Veterans.
I get excellent care from the VA and have been getting that care for years.
The veteran population is older and sicker than the general population and privatizing the system will only make it more expensive for everybody.
There are admittedly some problems in the system but is it broke NO. If it ain’t broke don’t let our idiot politicians try to fix it....
My BIL only uses the VA. He says they treat him well.
They wont be able to abolish the VA and send all the vets into Obamacare if the VA is efficiently doing its job.
The politicians say its a travesty and obviously something has to be done. So we will do THIS.........
BOHICA baby. You guys are used to no lube, right?
Idiots
The VA’s problem is not with its medical and local administrative staff. It's the corrupt upper echelon bureaucrats who are dismantling the VA health care system while lining their pockets. Shifting to privatized care is a guarantee of endless unaccountable graft and a death sentence for numerous veterans as they are bounced from facility to facility being treated as welfare patients. And then the “contract” dollars will run out.
That is why veterans organizations oppose privatization. And it is why they are also hammering the VA. Veterans organizations want the VA to run properly. Among other things, it means heads must roll at the upper echelons of the VA until the rot is cleaned out.
Remember, the VA is charged with being the advocate for veterans. Private medical facilities are only advocates for their bottom line.
And by the way, receiving VA medical care meets the requirements of that unconstitutional Obamacare. Once privatized, veterans medical care will not...no matter what Congress promises. Veterans will have to pay for insurance. Don't believe me? See what's happening to Tricare, another broken promise.
Don't be stupid and harmful.