Privatizing the VA would be disastrous for veterans like me who rely on the specialized services that only the VA can provide.
As a paraplegic, I need the specialty care the VA offers. The spinal cord clinic, prosthetics, neurology and several other specialists.
And there are veterans who rely on care for PTSD, TBI and a score of other veteran specific issues.
Throw us out into the civilian hospitals and many more will die.
I find it very hard to believe that the VA provides anything that other facilities cannot provide. There are civilian doctors that specialize in all the areas you mentioned who don’t put people on secret waiting lists to do as the VA has been caught doing.