Say what?? End veterans health care???

[waltky]

Gov't. tryin' to screw veterans outta health care...

Veterans Groups Criticize Secret Proposal to End VA Healthcare
Apr 02, 2016 | Several of the largest veterans' service organizations in the US are criticizing a proposal drafted in secret to shut down veterans' hospitals and clinics across the country and turn over veterans health care to the private sector.

The proposal was circulated outside the normal process by several members of a congressionally mandated Commission on Care created to study how VA will provide health care over the next couple of decades. "We are greatly alarmed by the content of the 'proposed straw man document' that was developed and drafted outside the open Commission process by seven ... of the fifteen members -- without the input or even knowledge of the other Commissioners," states the letter to the panel's chairwoman, Nancy Schlichting.

It was signed by the heads of Veterans of Foreign Wars, The American Legion, Disabled American Veterans, Paralyzed Veterans of America, AMVETS, Military Order of the Purple Heart, Vietnam Veterans of America, and Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America. The 34-page proposal would privatize veterans' health care and completely eliminate the Veterans Affairs Department health care facilities over the next 20 years, they said.

A new VA Health Care center in Salisbury, N.C. -- set to open this year -- would be shut down by a new proposal concocted in secret by a group of federal legislators.​

The proposal also calls for an immediate halt to new VA construction and for a "BRAC-like process" to begin shuttering existing hospitals and clinics, referring to the Pentagon's base realignment and closure process. The department's future role would essentially be to pay the bills of veterans getting care in the private sector. Schlichting, chief executive officer of Henry Ford Health System in Detroit, had previously warned commission members against recommending a "payor-only" role for VA.

The VSO chiefs said what is "most unsettling about the [recommendation] is the utter lack of consideration that veterans would want to improve and expand the VA health care system. There is also no discussion of how this proposal would affect the coordination of care, the quality of medical services and the health outcomes of veterans." Instead, the document simply asserts that "the current VA health care system is seriously broken and ... there is no efficient path to repair it" without backing up the assertion, the chiefs wrote.

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[The Great Goose]

Weird.

 

[Dale Smith]

But if you an illegal or a muslim refugee, you don't have to worry about a thing. The time to rid this country of this corporate "gubermint" has come. America is like a 50 pound dog and "da gubermint" is a hundred pound tick it is having to drag around. Millions are waking up to the fraud and theft this banker controlled entity has done to the American people. Still some work to do but we are going to rid ourselves of them.

 

[Hossfly]

 

[Hossfly]

Veterans Groups Criticize Secret Proposal to End VA Healthcare | Military.com

 

[Arianrhod]

Weird.

"Secret Proposal to End VA Healthcare"...yep, weird indeed.

Someone get back to us when this is verifiable.

 

[BULLDOG]

Gov't. tryin' to screw veterans outta health care...

Veterans Groups Criticize Secret Proposal to End VA Healthcare
Apr 02, 2016 | Several of the largest veterans' service organizations in the US are criticizing a proposal drafted in secret to shut down veterans' hospitals and clinics across the country and turn over veterans health care to the private sector.

The proposal was circulated outside the normal process by several members of a congressionally mandated Commission on Care created to study how VA will provide health care over the next couple of decades. "We are greatly alarmed by the content of the 'proposed straw man document' that was developed and drafted outside the open Commission process by seven ... of the fifteen members -- without the input or even knowledge of the other Commissioners," states the letter to the panel's chairwoman, Nancy Schlichting.

It was signed by the heads of Veterans of Foreign Wars, The American Legion, Disabled American Veterans, Paralyzed Veterans of America, AMVETS, Military Order of the Purple Heart, Vietnam Veterans of America, and Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America. The 34-page proposal would privatize veterans' health care and completely eliminate the Veterans Affairs Department health care facilities over the next 20 years, they said.

A new VA Health Care center in Salisbury, N.C. -- set to open this year -- would be shut down by a new proposal concocted in secret by a group of federal legislators.​

The proposal also calls for an immediate halt to new VA construction and for a "BRAC-like process" to begin shuttering existing hospitals and clinics, referring to the Pentagon's base realignment and closure process. The department's future role would essentially be to pay the bills of veterans getting care in the private sector. Schlichting, chief executive officer of Henry Ford Health System in Detroit, had previously warned commission members against recommending a "payor-only" role for VA.

The VSO chiefs said what is "most unsettling about the [recommendation] is the utter lack of consideration that veterans would want to improve and expand the VA health care system. There is also no discussion of how this proposal would affect the coordination of care, the quality of medical services and the health outcomes of veterans." Instead, the document simply asserts that "the current VA health care system is seriously broken and ... there is no efficient path to repair it" without backing up the assertion, the chiefs wrote.

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Republicans, led by the Koch brothers have been wanting to privatize the VA for quite a while.
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