Honestly the VA should be relegated to servicing paperwork and process. Who cares what group they are under as long as us Veterans are served our due reward.
Veterans would be much better served if we can simply make appointments at ANY clinic we need to, and present our VA “Insurance Card” as payment. Let private business handle it.
No more VA doctors and nurses, no more long wait times for substandard care. No more being pushed off to the side.
When they sit down and fight for budget dollars who do you see fighting for veteran dollars AS THEIR FIRST PRIORITY if the VA doesn’t exist?
I see no one.
Can it be streamlined, improved, and made more efficient? Sure. But, the DOD won’t fight for VA dollars as its FIRST PRIORITY any more than will the Health Department.
You mean no more physician’s assistants and nurses. They have 40,000 job openings but also consider the fact that Obamacare is destroying the once great medical field and many good docs are quitting.