Of course they will. Plus now they have to spend billions on medical and “family planning” services to all the illegal children flooding in.
The VA, to my understanding, is paying big “performance” bonuses to administrators which is a reason they had to cover up the wait times. These guys work for the government (taxpayers) and I’m sure they make a living wage as it is. Why should we pay a bonus for doing their job at the expense of the patients? A private insurance company wouldn’t get by with this.
Private companies do this crap all the time. The company goes broke, gets government bailouts and the executives get staggering bonuses, or the company dissolves and fires all the employees, and the executives get golden parachutes. We see it all the time. Remember the banks that got TARP funds? the government lent them billions to keep them afloat, and the executives got millions in bonuses. So it does happen with private companies.