I am no longer involved with veterans advocacy, but when I was, I saw too, too many that were unable to care for themselves, much less manage a relatively large sum of money for a health care program, unless it was on the order of vouching the amount of the monthly premium or co-payment.
But even then, I would anticipate problems.
There is no easy solution...but I would start by firing every single damned bureaucratic bean-counting son of a bitch that has managed to finagle him/herself a lifetime cushion job at the expense of the US Government and on the shoulders of veterans.
They are legion, they are in every VA clinic, from Podunk, Iowa to the massive Medical Centers in Birmingham, Vicksburg, Atlanta, New York, Pittsburgh, etc, etc, and they don't give a rat's ass about a veteran.
I have said it before, I say it again: I will die on the damned curb in front of the BEST VA Medical Center in the country, before I will crawl in and accept an aspirin from them.
After the things I have seen in them, I would never be able to hold my temper and not savage one of the worthless pieces of crap that work in them.
......”There is no easy solution...but I would start by firing every single damned bureaucratic bean-counting son of a bitch that has managed to finagle him/herself a lifetime cushion job at the expense of the US Government and on the shoulders of veterans.
They are legion, they are in every VA clinic, from Podunk, Iowa to the massive Medical Centers in Birmingham, Vicksburg, Atlanta, New York, Pittsburgh, etc, etc, and they don’t give a rat’s ass about a veteran.
I have said it before, I say it again: I will die on the damned curb in front of the BEST VA Medical Center in the country, before I will crawl in and accept an aspirin from them.
After the things I have seen in them, I would never be able to hold my temper and not savage one of the worthless pieces of crap that work in them”........
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+1 Here, I would not take a sick chicken into the one I have had to deal with.