And if you are healthy enough to use the civilian system, then you can use the Choice Card.
There are problems with the VA but those are mostly management that is bloated with career federal employees who care more about their paycheck than the veterans.
The analogy I use is this. Consider the VA a car with a bad part. You don’t scrap the whole car, you get rid of the bad part.
Actually, that depends on the part. Sometimes scrapping the car is what you do.