[PapaBear3625]

As others have noted, I would like to take the whole VA budget, divide by the number of veterans, and use that to give vets a good health insurance plan in the private sector, and fire the whole VA hierarchy.

Some have said that vets need VA hospitals for ailments that are much more common for vets (eg, PTSD, long-term effects of Agent Orange, tropical diseases), but for that I say that there is nothing stopping a private sector hospital system from creating a "veterans" department, and trying to attract vets to use them.

[Grampa Dave]

I’m in total agreement with the exception of limb replacement and the therapy before and after.

Pay the Hospitals well enough so that Kaiser, Stanford and the good Catholic hospitals want that business will go for it and be competitive.

[Grampa Dave]

Your suggestion is an excellent way to fund care for the vets and not cost any more money.

I would like to take the whole VA budget, divide by the number of disabled veterans, and use that to give vets a good health insurance plan in the private sector, and fire the whole VA hierarchy.