Get rid of it and sell of the assets..
Go to regular hospitals
Just a thought...I think we need MANY small community hospitals, serviced totally by military docs and nurses...and with access to major hospitals for extraordinary treatments. Or something along this line.
yep, give vets a “Cadillac” health care plan paid for by the Feds and it will cost a fraction of what the VA costs now and be 100% more efficient.
$182.3 BILLION we pay for the VA annually could buy the Vets one heck of a private insurance plan.
The good news is that they are NOT discussing full privatization.
There are some things only the VA does well.
TBI, PTSD and advanced prosthetics are 3.
Well you probably need the assets, just for capacity reasons. So sell them (or give them) to private hospital operators as part of the restructuring of the VA. No more separate facilities makes sense to me. It’s not needed.
That would probably be the best and easiest fix. A Veteran shows their DD214 or proof of Honorable Discharge and the clinic/hospital bills the DOD that has a small division for processing/paying such claims.
Much quicker than Trump appointing a VA fixer who has to deal with the the no-loads that permeate every Fedgov agency. Maybe that's why he's been hesitating to appoint a VA Administrator.
Yes, sell off all VA Hospitals and VA property. Let the new owners accept any patient who wants to go there.
Those with service connected disability should get pre-determined allowed amounts ... per year on credit cards. The credit cards would be equally good at all medical facilities, not just former VA facilities.
Those of us vets with no service connected disability should pay our own way. We should not be parasites on the system just because pandering politicians promised we could be parasites.
We vote with our feet, and with our pocket books. That is the freedom and democracy we fought for.