I am in favor of fixing the VA so it can help veterans.....something that is is not doing so such as the VA hospitals. In the meantime, I would temporarily have VA applicants be allowed to go to any hospital that honors Medicade/Medicare. VA hospitals are not helping vets in a timely fashon at all and many are not getting care. This would be a short term fix until the VA is righted.
Allowing Vets to have a veterans card and go to their normal care provider makes sense. Others have suggested the same. However, if those Vets came under DOD, they would be underfunded, because the critical mission of the DOD is winning wars. It is not ‘negotiating’ hospital care for former military members.