Any vet who has had to deal with the VA knows what a train wreck it is.
It’s one thing to say that they are experts in treating PTSD. It’s another thing all together to argue that therefore they are the best to provide all medical care.
WASHINGTON – Eager for changes at the Department of Veterans Affairs, President Donald Trump toyed early on with issuing an executive order to close parts of the VA health system without consulting Congress, according to an upcoming book by his former VA secretary.
In the book, obtained by The Associated Press, David Shulkin describes a March 6, 2017, conversation in the Oval Office where Trump explored ways his administration could act quickly to shutter government-run VA medical centers that he viewed as poorly performing.
Trump was fresh off his 2016 campaign in which privatizing VA had become a political hot button after he pledged to steer more veterans to private-sector doctors outside the VA. He had said the VA was the “the most corrupt” and “probably the most incompetently run” Cabinet department. Democrats and major veterans’ groups oppose “privatization” and say VA facilities are best-suited to treat battlefield injuries such as post-traumatic stress disorder.
https://www.spokesman.com/stories/2019/oct/16/book-trump-mulled-order-to-close-parts-of-va-healt/