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“The VA does not care about Veterans. Their job is to placate the veterans and minimize costs.”

My wife is an MD, and has worked for the VA for over twenty years. The medical staff really cares about the vets. But the working conditions are such that MD’s are leaving at a higher rate than ever and many years of pay freezes are making it difficult to get new Dr’s to join. Bottom line, they are way under staffed.

You are correct about the people at the head of the bureaucracy. While there are many dedicated caregivers in the VA who do want to provide good service, for the careerists at the higher levels it's all department climbing all the time. They may as well be in the Department of Agriculture for all they care about veteran healthcare. That includes hospital directors on up the chain to Shitsecki and Hagel too.

“The VA does not care about Veterans. Their job is to placate the veterans and minimize costs.”

Where do you think FUBO got Obamacare from? The RATs only care about themselves. If a bunch of vets have to die to “help” them make their “numbers,” TS. Medicare, Medicaid, Obamacare, allee sammee!

Maybe the VA administrators and and their bosses don't care about Vets; but I can tell you from personal experience that the Doctors, Nurses and Technicians cared about us a whole lot, at least in the 80s.
After being soaked for about a 100K in medical bills from supposedly the 2 best neurologists in the state of California and almost being killed by them, my wife finally kicked me in the ass and made me check into the Vets Hospital at Wadsworth.
All I can say is I got the best, most competent treatment in the world there. My Neurosurgeon even called in a consultant from West Germany, the only neurosurgeon in the world who had ever done the procedure that I required to live.
They had to remove a tumor from the 3rd ventricle of my brain. It required that they peel off my scalp and face, cut a 3.5” x 4” opening in my skull, separate the two hemispheres of my brain just to get at the tumor, remove the tumor then put every thing back together. The plate in my head gives me headaches if I don't wear a hat when I am out in the sun on a hot day (finally losing my hair on top) and I set off airport metal detectors. You would get a real laugh out of the TSA idiots when they run the wand around my head, same at the courthouse. The administrators at the VA may be a bunch of asshats, but the medical staff are the greatest.
Every day I thank GOD for Dr. Gadda (yes, that was his name), for the entire medical staff, the Nursing staff and all the rest of the techs and support staff for my life.