Why do we have veterans hospitals? They should be able to go to any hospital and get the care they need.
Its a Soviet-style structure, minus the coherence of the one-party state. Instead, VA answers to 535 members of Congress, their episodically disgruntled constituents and a plethora of veterans lobbies, whose raison detre is linked to the existence of a large VA bureaucracy and whose political power is impossible to overstate, as former George W. Bush administration domestic policy aide Yuval Levin noted in a revealing National Review article at the height of last years scandal.
Contact your paid insurance provider and tell them You want FREE healthcare from the Government!
Do it today !