Ron Green (7,133 posts)http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024984660 (http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024984660)
My care from the VA is excellent.
Appointments when I need them, never more than a few minutes' wait to see the doc, quick referrals to all specialties, timely follow-up messages after visits. And it's all free.
My experience is of course anecdotal. I wonder about the sources (and timing) of these stories in the news. They're anecdotal, too, until there's real data.
UTUSN (37,418 posts)
SHINSECKI or whatever his name is is NOT the problem. Rachel just hosted a vet scapegoating
The VA has had a bad reputation for all of my own 50 yrs of when I became a vet. The problems can't be fixed with "high tech" crap. It's the nature of the beast. Yes. Yes, it is and the beast is? The VA has had a problem and probably will always have a problem. Ohhhh, so no beast here just unfixable problems with government programs, then?
O.K., *fire* the top dude. Let's see where that'll getcha.
Star Member okaawhatever (5,994 posts)
7. Agreed. I hate to say it, but as bad as the problems are now, they're nothing compared to
post-Vietnam. I'm not saying the problems now aren't bad and need to be fixed, but the faux outrage by some politicos is disgusting when you know they were voting cuts for Veterans programs for the last 30 years. :o Who did that?
When you mentioned your reasons for the VA problems not getting fixed you forgot one, IMHO.
1. the Republicans only care about active duty service members because when they become Veterans a lot of their budget falls under entitlement programs.
Since the GOP has convinced everyone that entitlement means something other than "you are entitled to it because you did something to earn it" they've screwed themselves. If the Vet programs have increased funding, it will increase the entitlement budget. Notice how you don't have the same problem with, say retirement (different part of the budget). The medical care portion isn't under the entitlement budget but many of the work programs and programs for homeless vets are.
Bottom line, when you become a vet you stop being a Republican priority and start being a Democrats priority.:rotf: :rotf: :rotf: :rotf: :rotf:
He's a prolific reader.....to bad his daddy couldn't read the instructions on a condom wrapper.
And he's always got to read about it in the paper.
O'Bummer will focus on this with laser-like attention and get a hole-in-one.
Bottom line, when you become a vet you stop being a Republican priority and start being a Democrats priority.
In March of 2009 Barry Bigears wanted to make Vets pay for their own healthcare out of pocket. I'm so tired of the lies and lip service Politicians are giving veterans and those serving saying they support us and they want only the best for us. Well,Where in the hell is it? It certainly wasn't there when the Senate voted down the latest VA reform bill. Also I see none of the famous DU "Vets" have posted anything on this over at the playground called DU. I guess they are only :Vets: when some republican screws up and they need to blame Bush for the problem.
DAYTON -- The Department of Veterans Affairs spends more today in inflation adjusted dollars than it did after World War II and the Vietnam War, when millions of troops returned from the battlefield, according to federal budget figures.
By the next fiscal year, the VA budget is projected to rise 58 percent since 2009 to $152.7 billion, more than double the $70.9 billion spent in 2005, agency figures show.
http://www.military.com/daily-news/2013/09/09/va-budget-skyrockets-despite-federal-spending-cuts.html
I would post this at DU, but I feel so dirty after going over there. :-)
VA Budget Skyrockets Despite Federal Spending Cuts
Dayton Daily News | Sep 09, 2013
Democrats answer; throw more money at problems. :thatsright:
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