I had cancer in the 1990's and no healthcare. I am a veteran...and was treated by the VA. Still waking up every morning.I'm a veteran. I know far more veterans than you do. The VA is seen by them through the lens of the local facilities. Either they like the VA because the local facilities are well managed or they hate the VA because the local facilities are mismanaged and incompetent. There's no in-between.
Veterans who are retired (like me) have Tri-care and don't use the VA (I'm in category 8, 'last served' because I have other healthcare coverage).
Far from your asinine claim, coverage for disabled veterans cuts two ways. There are those that scam the system to get healthcare coverage, and there are those that truly need it. And, yes, the VA does get scammed. The VA hospital system was created out of WW 2 when no real alternatives for disabled veterans existed. Today there are better and cheaper systems.
It'd be cheaper to put disabled veterans on a form of Tri-care and allow them to use the civilian / community healthcare system rather than be forced into using the VA system. They'd get better and more timely care than the VA provides now. What keeps that from happening is bureaucratic inertia and little else.
My father was a vet, my two brothers are vets, several of my cousins are vets, an uncle was a vet, two of my aunts were vets. I know a ton of other non-related vets...and for you to suppose you know more than I is nothing more than a bullshit guess...which may very well be wrong.
My compliment of your careful wording stands.
