I have no freaking idea what your abbreviations mean, never needed to know.
If you don't know what those abbreviations are then you have never had to fight the VBA or the VHA for what was rightly yours by law and/or they don't apply to you! For instance, given you claim to be rated 100% and are unaware what P&T is you are ONLY totally (100%) disabled AND
without a Permanent rating and return every 5 years or so for reevaluation via C&P (Compensation and Pension) exams, now normally from civilian vendors and not a VAMC (VA Medical Center). The biggest vendor for C&P's is QTC Medical wholly owned by Lockheed Martian; now ain't that special for the military industrial complex!
I've had over a dozen C&P exams from QTC by their bloody inept contractors at multiple locations in multiple cities and towns. The VA budget pays top dollar and the vet gets bottom drawer exams with indifference from QTC's lowest bidder which negatively impact their claim owing to careless ineptitude! And you believe the VA should be PRIVATIZED?
You not only don't know what all those abbreviations mean but you don't know squat about how the VA would further degenerate to nothing if it were handed over to the military profiteers! How about we privatize the military and let Black Water take it over on a Cheney style no-bid contract?
Almost forgot, have you tried to use the Veterans Choice Card, it took 3.5 months for me to get authorization to use a civilian dentist closer to home.
Nope! But I know it's purpose, and like anything linked to the VA involving added expenditures to a vet, the bloody creatures will make you jump through hoops for as long as they can unless you take the fight to them! But you can't fight a ******* proxy vendor like QTC without help from above and the VA OIG like I had to!
You just have to take it up the ass and smile or all your files disappear mystically and magically and you loose a year or two or four on your claim with appeals! Do you really want to privatize the VA without even knowing what a few common VA acronyms are, let alone the depths of the myriad other vast issues involved and believe that will fix the VA?