Trump administration plans to cut over 80,000 employees from Veterans Affairs

[Couchpotato]

And your readiness to throw fellow Vets under the bus is despicable

Why should a person who has a job for 4 years be given lifelong health care free of charge? What's the justification for that? It's not throwing anyone "under the bus" it's being reasonable about the level of benefits we are granting people.

 

[OhPleaseJustQuit]

Or sit on their ass.

Streamline it, put the money into the people that actually help veterans

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The work is getting done by the people who are actually working. The processing of my husband's disability claim went perfectly smoothly and quickly, and ditto with the legal process of my claiming guardianship of his funds when he became cognitively unable to do so, as well as the process of my claiming his benefits when he died. Any system that works that smoothly is not hurting for the effective workers, and probably has fat to trim.


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[Meister]

Is that why they are constantly re-hiring the people they fired hours earlier?

You are so full of shit.

'Read this e-mail immediately': CDC tells about 180 fired employees to come back to work

They were dismissed as part of President Donald Trump’s and billionaire Elon Musk’s cost-cutting purge

apnews.com

"They are constantly....."?
I'm not the one who took the ExLax, you are.

 

[JGalt]

Mass firings have nothing to do with whether workers are doing there jobs.

It’s just cutring for the sake of cutting. There’s no way evaluations have been made on that short span of time.

And yes… many are Vets.

As noted… Vets make up 25% of the VA workforce.

And yes the WH has said “well maybe those Vets shouldn’t have jobs anyway” or words to that effect

Well maybe the Biden/Harris administration shouldn't have gone on a massive hiring spree. The Trump administration's objective is to return to 2019 staffing levels of 399,957 employees, which is about 83,000 fewer employees than the VA has right now. US combat deaths and injuries were way down since the days we were losing so many troops under GW and Obama, and there's no need for that many employees if the VA is being ran in an efficient manner.

 

[SassyIrishLass]

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The work is getting done by the people who are actually working. The processing of my husband's disability claim went perfectly smoothly and quickly, and ditto with the legal process of my claiming guardianship of his funds when he became cognitively unable to do so, as well as the process of my claiming his benefits when he died. Any system that works that smoothly is not hurting for the effective workers, and probably has fat to trim.


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I've heard good and bad about the VA.

My best friend lost his right leg and his left up to the knee in Iraq. Physical rehabilitation went well but I think mentally/emotional treatment was lacking. He needed both "wounds" attended to

 

[WorldWatcher]

Uniforms who served a few years and got out do not deserve lifetime medical services that reduces care for true wounded warriors

Uniforms who served for a few years and got out don't get lifetime medical services except under very specific conditions.

Such as disability, Prisoner of War, Military Retiree, Exposure to specific toxic chemicals (such as burn pits, or Camp LeJeune toxic chemicals.

This is what happens when people take (or support taking) actions without knowing the basics.

WW

 

[WorldWatcher]

Clearly not a Vet

Ya, think?

WW

 

[WorldWatcher]

I did. 23 years in the Marine Corps. He’s right.

No he's not.

You don't get to do a few years and get medical care for life. There are conditions on the service.

I did 20 years and I'm married to a disabled vet.

WW

 

[WorldWatcher]

Why should a person who has a job for 4 years be given lifelong health care free of charge? What's the justification for that? It's not throwing anyone "under the bus" it's being reasonable about the level of benefits we are granting people.

People don't get life long health care just for doing a job for 4 years.

WW

 

[Mac-7]

Uniforms who served for a few years and got out don't get lifetime medical services except under very specific conditions.

Such as disability, Prisoner of War, Military Retiree, Exposure to specific toxic chemicals (such as burn pits, or Camp LeJeune toxic chemicals.

This is what happens when people take (or support taking) actions without knowing the basics.

WW

That still leaves a lot of undeserving vets clogging up the waiting rooms

 

[WorldWatcher]

For the civilians in the thread.

To qualify for VA medical care you have to meet certain eligibility requirements.

See link -->> Eligibility for VA health care | Veterans Affairs

WW

 

[WorldWatcher]

That still leaves a lot of undeserving vets clogging up the waiting rooms

Specifically what "underserving vets" are you referring to?

WW

 

[Tumblin Tumbleweed]

Where in all-of-that did I not speak Truth? Serous question.

Nowhere. You're on point.

 

[Couchpotato]

No he's not.

You don't get to do a few years and get medical care for life. There are conditions on the service.

I did 20 years and I'm married to a disabled vet.

WW

He's saying you shouldn't be entitled to that and Lesh is saying you should. My cousin did one enlistment in the Marine Corps. He gets most if not all his medical care at the VA. He's not service connected disabled. .

 

[Couchpotato]

People don't get life long health care just for doing a job for 4 years.

WW

Eligibility for VA health care | Veterans Affairs

Find out if you can get VA health care as a Veteran.

www.va.gov

You're right it's only 24 months... My bad...

 

[Mac-7]

Specifically what "underserving vets" are you referring to?

WW

Vets who did not retire and do not have service related medical problems

 

[Couchpotato]

Specifically what "underserving vets" are you referring to?

WW

Should a person enlist in the AF do one enlistment, never deploy anywhere, do his/her time honorably and then be eligible for healthcare through the VA that doesn't address some injury they have as a result of their service? If you think they should you are signing the taxpayer up for a huge bill. That individual could be as young as 21. It's easily 50+ years of healthcare.

 

[WorldWatcher]

Vets who did not retire and do not have service related medical problems

They don't get lifetime medical.

WW

 

[WorldWatcher]

Should a person enlist in the AF do one enlistment, never deploy anywhere, do his/her time honorably and then be eligible for healthcare through the VA that doesn't address some injury they have as a result of their service? If you think they should you are signing the taxpayer up for a huge bill. That individual could be as young as 21. It's easily 50+ years of healthcare.

A person that enlists for one enlistment, has no disability, has not been exposed to identified long term toxic environments (burn pits, etc.), or had not retired does qualify for lifetime medical.

The link to qualifications for VA medical was previously provided.

WW

 

[Kondor3]

Are vets getting thrown under the bus? Has there been any evidence of large-scale service disruptions yet?