Could VA leadership be the real reason Veteran benefits are getting cut?

as it seems he does't know anything about what vets have done, he should resign today!!

He's a straight up first class buffoon. I don't like to say that but no one says what he said unless they're ignorant, arrogant or just plain an idiot.

I personally think the problem with the VA is one of functional vs philosophical roles.

My premise is that the government is a machine. Gears, cogs, wheels, you name it. It functions relatively well in that capacity.

Health Care however is a Social Program. In and of itself that is not a bad thing. However Social Programs are about People.

People & Machines don't mix however. You can't treat people like they are part of a machine. You can't treat them like a line item on a report. You have to treat them like living breathing people.

When a machine is running at 85-95% efficiency, that is good. Great even. We'd be ecstatic that it is performing so well.

However, if our Health Care system is running at 95% efficiency, that means 5% of things are not running well. That's bad. Hugely bad. Frankly unacceptable. 20M Vets (about 8M enrolled in the VA). Using my SWAG (Scientific Wild @ss Guess) numbers of 5% that gives us a "failure" of 400,000 Vets. That's a lot of vets even if the system is working well as a "finely tuned machine." If it's running at "standard" government efficiency of 80%~ you can multiply that number by 4.

Again, these are just SWAG numbers, but if we are failing a number of veterans equal to our current Active Duty force.... something looks hugely wrong, even if the "machine" is efficient.

So what exactly am I getting at? The government is ill equipped, to handle Health Care. We need someone with the right "philosophy" to do it. As long as our government is directly involved, it is going to be treated as "part of the machine" rather than someone who the nation is repaying a debt to.