Dissolve the Veteran's Administration Hospital System
The Wall Street Journal thinks the VA Hospital System should be dissolved, others might say blown up, and others may just be speechless at the appointment scandal at the agency. With Viet Nam vets getting older and ten years plus of wars in the Middle East this problem should have been foreseen.
I'm not going to defend anyone involved in this mess. This is Memorial Day Weekend and the vets that served this country need an alternative to the VA Hospitals if the hospitals are unable to do what they need to do for whatever reason(s) put forward and while they fix the problem(s).
On the battlefield doctors are saving folks, and then the wounded go home to wait and wait. The provision of medical services to vets used to be a benefit to those that served, the administration, congress, and the agency needed to start working on this problem a long time ago.
I'm guilty thinking that saying "thank you for your service" means something. Does it really mean much of anything if you served and then you die or your condition gets worse while waiting for an appointment.
If a voucher program needs to be established to get waiting times for appointments under control, let's get this started. I'm really not sure if a more efficient bureaucratic response is entirely the answer and putting greedy bureaucrats in jail or firing them, might punish most of the most guilty but still leaves others hanging out to dry.
There are now further reports that vets have been subjected to long waits for appointments not just recently but for a long time. This is not the first time a governmental agency has been set up to fail when the rhetoric doesn't match reality and politics trumps governance and proper oversight.
I'm of the opinion that these types of issues are all part of the stew we cook up these days.
We would be well advised to follow this story. It's a case study for sure but it is more than an academic exercise and deserves real attention and actions.
I'm not going to defend anyone involved in this mess. This is Memorial Day Weekend and the vets that served this country need an alternative to the VA Hospitals if the hospitals are unable to do what they need to do for whatever reason(s) put forward and while they fix the problem(s).
On the battlefield doctors are saving folks, and then the wounded go home to wait and wait. The provision of medical services to vets used to be a benefit to those that served, the administration, congress, and the agency needed to start working on this problem a long time ago.
I'm guilty thinking that saying "thank you for your service" means something. Does it really mean much of anything if you served and then you die or your condition gets worse while waiting for an appointment.
If a voucher program needs to be established to get waiting times for appointments under control, let's get this started. I'm really not sure if a more efficient bureaucratic response is entirely the answer and putting greedy bureaucrats in jail or firing them, might punish most of the most guilty but still leaves others hanging out to dry.
There are now further reports that vets have been subjected to long waits for appointments not just recently but for a long time. This is not the first time a governmental agency has been set up to fail when the rhetoric doesn't match reality and politics trumps governance and proper oversight.
I'm of the opinion that these types of issues are all part of the stew we cook up these days.
We would be well advised to follow this story. It's a case study for sure but it is more than an academic exercise and deserves real attention and actions.
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