Sorry Joe but you and I will have to disagree. I joined the ARMY in 1969 was wounded in 1971 and discharged in 1972. So far the only time I’ve been in a VA was to take my ex wife to work on a few days that the roads were iced up. She still works for the VA and my sister and brother in-law have both retired from the VA. While I have no personal dealing with the VA I do have a pretty good understanding of it’s operations and it is an abused system by both the patients and the employee’s.
My brother in-law receives 81 thousand dollars a year and my sister 58 thousand a year, my ex makes a little over 80 thousand as an RN. Before my ex went to work for the VA she was a charge nurse at a nursing home making 60 thousand taking care of 122 patients. She had 4 halls and one LVN and 2 aids for each hall, she now has 2 halls with 1 RN 2 LVN’s and 4 aids per hall and has never had more than 30 patients total. Most of her patients are Addicts, alcoholic’s and people being treated for non service related problems.
With that said, my new wife is the ER Director at the local private hospital here in West Texas where she gets VA transfer patients in daily. The local VA just sends them out if there’s a real medical problem that needs to be addressed. They have no ER and no ability to handle emergency’s yet they did put in a new helo pad out front that so far has only been used once by a transfer crew that walked across the street to Long John Silvers for lunch.
Shut them down and give the VETS ID that gives them care at any hospital they walk into so they don’t have to travel 40 to 70 miles just to find treatment and stop just feeding them drug’s! They are a disgrace to VETS with service related injuries and nothing more than a bucket for those that feed off of them.
In all fairness, LJS does make some pretty good chow....