Discussion: House Passes Bill To Expand Private Medical Care At Struggling VA

Does anybody know what is going on with the ads on Prime accounts?

The House voted Wednesday to give veterans more freedom to see doctors outside the Veterans Affairs health system, a major shift aimed at reducing wait times and improving medical care despite the concerns of some

As a user of the VA, this is BULL PHUCKY. The VA needs help simply because Congress and multiple Administrations have short changed the agency for years. Example, pull $1Billion from funding just as you are starting a war, then ask why is there a problem… DAH!.. Fuck Congress for their “Support Our Troops” efforts. This latest move is another of the many to dismantle one of the few agencies that actually work.

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It’s an AP story, so of course there’s nothing of serious substance in the VA about this, or the notion that the money comes out of the rest of the VA’s budget.

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If they spent the billions on hiring more VA doctors and improving facilities that they are sending out to local hospitals and doctors the VA would be fine. This is more effort to privatize the VA.

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