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Exactly... issue voucher cards that should be universally accepted at local clinics and hospitals to vets like myself that are service connected disabled and live over 60 miles away from the nearest VA care facility. Why pay me $45 travel pay? Keep the money and let me go to a local clinic.I'm not sure about totaling doing away with the VA, but I think most of the healthcare services could be provided near home. Let vets go to private health care providers in their community. I have a good friend that goes to the VA hospital and clinic often. He drives over 25 miles, usually he sees a different doctor every time he goes. He could get the same if not better care two blocks from his house and the claims could be handled by Medicare.Yep, and I said so a few days ago. I've worked in one and seen them in action. There are good VA hospitals and good VA doctors but the system is typical government. Bloated beyond belief, laden with bureaucracy and red tape and managed by dipsticks that are in it for the security and bennies.
Before my grandfather died, a ww2 vet, I remember my grandmother bitching to no end about the troubles they had getting him adaquate care at the VA in Topeka Ks.