I don’t know where to even begin to fix the system...........Dissolve the VA. Sell all buildings, property at once to the private sector with oversight on the sellers. Put that money in the VA operating budget. Give vouchers to the Vet for care in private Dr.’s, Hospitals and hospices. Get the Gubbmint out, get private business in.
Maybe the answer is to have the government own and operate the facilities (eg; buildings and equipment) but to have private oversight of the budget and personnel. Just an idea.
I don’t think that conservatives or rational folks of any sort have any sort of objection to the government taking care of vets. It is perhaps semi-socialist but I would not be averse to having student doctors intern at VA hospitals and work off student debt.
But the money has to be brought under private, auditable control.