Once vets stopped active duty service, they should have just been given vouchers for civilian medial facilities. Creating the entire VA medical complex was a hugh mistake, and only grew the size of government even more.
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“Once vets stopped active duty service, they should have just been given vouchers for civilian medial facilities.”
The bureaucracy sucks but the idea is sound. It is beneficial for vets to be treated by physicians who understand military demands, lifestyle, and roe.
An alternative is opening up military clinics to vets - it keeps the vets in a system they know and keeps the skills of the medical providers up. (This is a real possibility based on recent studies and swamp talks.)