What is your VA Priority rating?
Disability rating is only 10$ and priority is high. I could up the dis-rating but am not compelled to do so.
I have no problem getting seen, it’s just that I prefer private care because I can afford it and it’s a zillion times better.
I know the VHA system very well from my days as a health scientist. They are good people in a bad setting. They try hard and need to pump themselves up with cheerleading talking points.
For eample,
ICARE
I = Integrity
C = Commitment
A = Advocacy
R = Respect
E = Excellence
ICARE is a cheerleading chant, placards like it and others up and down the halls of VA med centers.
What kind of effed up organization needs these moronic mottos plastered on its walls?
Why is it that the VA can’t retain good people? Why is their dissatisfaction with working conditions?
They often have state of the art technology. Their facilities are usually quite clean.
What is it?
It’s the false bravado of government ‘accountability’.
You have to follow the government culture. Screw the patient unless it falls into routine tasks like handing out pills or drawing blood.
It’s not the people, it’s the culture.
Government healthcare sucks period.
Oh, it can look good on occasion but when it comes to decisions in the chain of command, it can kill you unless you have a really good doctor that cares and they are few and far between in VHA. The reason they can’t keep good doctors is because of the culture. It sucks.
Private care has its downside as well but nowhere near the severity of government-run systems.