Posted on 11/29/2016 7:43:12 AM PST by Kaslin
Every time Donald Trump discusses issues he hopes to tackle as president, he always mentions the need to make sure US veterans are taken care of. A strong candidate for the job who is currently being considered for Secretary of Veterans Affairs is former Senator Scott Brown. American Thinker interviewed him and some veterans about what issues need to be tackled.
If anyone has the right stuff to clean up the mess within the VA it is Scott Brown. His work experiences will help him tackle the many issues. At the age of nineteen he enlisted, and soon was commissioned an infantry officer, retiring as a Colonel. As a State Senator and US Senator he was a ranking member on committees that dealt with veterans’ issues.
An issue important to Val, a retired Air Force Doctor, who is now working for a veteran’s choice clinic, is timely referrals for patients who cannot be seen under the 30 days access standard, because the VA drags their feet for months. Brown is aware of these problems since his friends:
“have been vets for 30/40 years and had to wait months for an appointment. My friends eventually went somewhere else and had to pay out of their own pocket. They resent not being able to get help from the VA in a timely manner. I think it is obvious the VA cannot handle the backlog so we need to get private providers involved. This is not privatizing it, but a combination approach. Before any decision is made there must be a state by state analysis of each facility.”
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
Brown is a two faced weasel. No thanks
President-elect Donald Trump is tapping Congressman Tom Price (R-GA) to be Secretary of Health and Human Services
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Sorry Brown you lost ... Tom Price will be heading this department...
"Irrelevant Former Senator and 2-Time Loser Offers Opinion"
Price will be heading the VA too? I thought running HHS would keep him busy...
..and kick ALL of the Medial World in the “You Know What”, because they have done notching, I Mean NOTHING to heal TBI.
Hmmmm. So my take, after fighting just to get IN to the VA system, a lot of us served with no questions asked. Now, when some of us need the system, you have to jump through hoops to get in. To me, if you served, were honorably discharged, you should be IN regardless.
Shut up RINO.
Get back into your stupid truck and take a long ride on a short pier.
Who is “Val”?
“To me, if you served, were honorably discharged, you should be IN regardless.”
Just as health insurance is not the same thing as medical treatment, being in the VA system is not the same thing as receiving treatment for what ails you.
I’ve gone outside the VA looking for pain management, which the VA would not provide.
Tore a rotator cuff a few months ago. Doctor at VA ER tells me I tore my rotator cuff. Entry in medical record: “Muscle strain.” MRI at civilian hospital forces VA to admit torn rotator cuff. VA tells me, “Maybe you could do some rehab. Probably won’t help, but you’ll get no operation and no pain management.”
The VA is a bloated bureaucracy. What they need more than anything else is to start over. They need to place every single position in a holding file and then rewire diagram the entire operation based on delivering medical care and not providing jobs for civilian workers and social workers. Then they need to pull from the holding file the names of those who actually fit the qualifications needed.
It’s a huge task, and will cause a lot of heartburn.
I thought Dr Carson had been assigned to HHS????
You need to ask the author.
It is president elect Trump's decision who he will choose to clean the VA mess up. So if he chooses Senator Scott Brown, so be it. Stop your whining.
Being on a government committee “dealing with veterans’ issues” and running a successful large scale business are widely divergent things. His status as a veteran doesn’t make him qualified to do the latter anymore than being a talking head at a table does the former. What the VA needs is someone with actual experience running a successful corporate medical entity, not another doofus who eschewed actual work for the political gravy train.
Being on a government committee “dealing with veterans’ issues” and running a successful large scale business are widely divergent things. His status as a veteran doesn’t make him qualified to do the latter anymore than being a talking head at a table does. What the VA needs is someone with actual experience running a successful corporate medical entity, not another doofus who eschewed actual work for the political gravy train.
Fixed it.
The first thing they could do is stop the thievery.
Then, throw the thieving VA bureaucrats into prison and confiscate everything they have.
The VA bureaucrats are organized crime.
Trump seems to be doing a great job of finding appropriate people.
Wish I knew Trump. I’d love the chance to clean up the VA (or possibly eliminate it and let our vets go to whatever hospitals they choose).
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