This is about the VA and its current problems. The following is a germane comment from the NY Times. It maybe to the heart of the matter. So far our South Florida VA system seems not to be involved. As a matter of fact the few Vets that I talked with were very satisfied with the services they are getting from our Blue Heron facility.
"If anyone thinks that having Gen. Shinseki resign from his post as head of the VA will change anything they are truly naive. The VA employees function as a reliable congressional incumbent reelection block. The VA has been a model of bureaucratic insufficiency for decades. I worked and trained at the VA in the 80s and 90s and it was full of employees who spent more time counting their accumulated benefits than caring for the veterans. There are no incentives in the system for efficient and accountable patient care. It is government socialism that would make an old Soviet commissar proud. Don't expect any changes unless the VA is forced to compete with the private system. Truly the ideal result would be to end the VA entirely and provide free care for life for all veterans wherever they live."
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