“The solution to the substandard care given by “union goons” masquerading as VA Hospital workers, is to sell off the VA facilities to private companies without any provision for any “worker retention.” This gives veterans better healthcare and eliminates the need to go through the odious process of firing the majority incompetents who currently staff the facilities.”
It’s glaringly apparent you are not a vet who gets his care from the VA. Perhaps you ought to let them decide the best course.
Almost universally, veterans in priority group 3 and above will say VA care is the best they have ever had, anywhere, anytime.
And VA facilities offer services that are specific to vets and unavailable anywhere else. VA prosthetics and reconstruction of limbs is the best in the world.
Bar none.
The VFW, DAV and American Legion all support keeping the VA facilities and services.
Why don’t you?
The Houston VA told me they don’t flush the dye out after placing stents in heart arteries. Bottom line I was told to prepare for kidney dialysis.
I was trying to hang on until my medicare to kicked end. God decided I wouldn’t wait and I crashed and burned in Little Rock and went to the ER at the VA there.
An Iranian doctor there was working on a procedure where dye is put in, a “picture” is taken then the dye is flushed out. The cardiologist then goes in blind and inserts the stents.
I left there in better shape I’d been in for 10 years.
A few months later I learned the doctor was being told her visa was up and she would have to go back to Iran 6 months before finishing her studies.
I started calling people and telling them this woman saved my life and she should be allowed to stay here to finish her studies and save a few more veterans’ lives. The congressman’s office in Little Rock jumped on it. She got the extension she needed.
She told me not long ago that she had performed the procedure on 8 veterans sinse me .. all successful”.
A janitor in Little Rock told me “We don’t need more workers. We meed more workers who give a damn”.
“The VFW, DAV and American Legion all support keeping the VA facilities and services.
Why don’t you?”
I only know about those things that have been made public about the VA and it’s “medical care.” I suppose there are VA facilities where good care is rendered, but there are also horror stories about vets being denied care to the point where some of them have lost their lives waiting to be served. I am also a person who believes that virtually nothing that the government does, has as it’s primary objective, to render superior service to the taxpayers. Quite the opposite, I see the bulk of government “workers” as a self-serving bunch whose primary objective ( usually through their union) to extract the maximum benefit from the taxpayer for their contributions. So much to say, government employment is an end to itself, a jobs program for the workers as opposed to being paid to do a job.
I don’t know why veterans organizations support the VA given that from what I gather, the “safety valve” now being offered vets is the opportunity to go to get medical care elsewhere and have the government pay for it.
My father was a Navy WWII vet. He died in the VA Hospital in Palo Alto, CA 40 years ago from cancer. He had been treated at Stanford until his insurance had run out, then he moved to the VA Hospital and was treated by the same Stanford doctors that he had been seeing. The VA care was excellent, so that is my personal experience with the VA. But that was again 40 years ago, and probably a very different time with respect to the VA. That said, I still favor getting completely rid of the VA and repurposing it’s facilities within the private sector, with the possible exception of those facilities specifically tasked with caring for war-related injuries. There is simply no rational reason to segregate a part of our population simply because they served in our military when it comes to general healthcare services.