Posted on May 28, 2014
Scrap the entire VA and start over. Give Vets healthcare credit cards till you can get it right.
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The system is corrupt and irreparable. It needs to be completely rethought and redone.
1,700 not even on the list? Why? For salary increases and bonuses from fabricating low wait times? Throw them under the jail!
http://www.cnn.com/2014/05/28/politics/phoenix-va-hospital/index.html?hpt=hp_t1
1,700 not even on the list? Why? For salary increases and bonuses from fabricating low wait times? Throw them under the jail!
http://www.cnn.com/2014/05/28/politics/phoenix-va-hospital/index.html?hpt=hp_t1
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I support outsourcing the care and I don't see it as being much different as being on Tricare prime remote. There is not a post near by I go to a civilian provider and the military pays. The VA is back logged let vets see civilians and the VA pays...how is this bad?
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MAJ Samuel Weber
What many Soldiers and Veterans don't consider is that outsourcing costs the military money. Unlike the operational DoD, the DoDs Healthcare system has a budget that must be justified. When we outsource care it comes out of the healthcare budget and reduces our budget the next year. In my Career Course (AMEDD) we discussed this at great length. The answer is not to scrap the VA or DoD healthcare system, it's to fix what we have. No one considers that we never planned for the mass amount of service members that would be wounded over the past 12 years. No health system could sustain what we, the DoD health system, had too. On average an Army Medical Center has 500 beds and more than 2,500 staff. No civilian hospital comes close to the shear volume and logistical capabilities of the DoD. Overall your recommendation is not able to be funded. As we say, Money doesn't grow on trees, it has to come from somewhere.
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Sir- granted it does cost money. However when I get the payout statements from tri-care it looks like they never pay the entire cost of the visit. But that said maybe if money wasn't wasted on things like a survival plan for the zombie apocalypse there would be more money to out source.
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SGT Timothy Byrd
I don't see where DOD's budget has anything to do with the day to day operations of the VA & what is spent on care for Veterans.
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The VA is like each state's dept of motor vehicles - it's a big honking white elephant in the middle of the room. Everyone knows its there, knows its a broken and has been broken for years but no one will do anything about it. Everyone blames the problems on over-administration, under funding, the wind on a rainy Tuesday morning, anything and any excuse but still nothing gets fixed. Right now you'd think we have the best possible chance of getting things fixed with a former Army chief of staff at the helm - and still nothing. Time to start fresh - unless of course they scrap it all and leave vets at the mercy of obama-care.
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Let the VA work it out but under severe scrutiny. As I type this I realize I sound like a Polly Anna. If they can't work it out then scrap it and start over. We've touched on this in other discussions but in order for effective change to happen within the VA there has to be a culture change. There is a poisonous culture a muck in the VA system and until that's eradicated, nothing effective can happen in my book.
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TSgt Kevin Buccola
The VA and Government will work it out - There will be major leadership changes and policy changes. Things will get better.
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