“Initially, people were always required to get their care inside of the VA. The VA started having really long wait times, or wasn’t providing adequate service, or a number of reasons why people decided they wanted to get outside of the VA.
And the Trump administration said, great, you want to go get community care, we’re going to create a system for you to go outside of the VA,” Congressman Brian Mast (R-FL) Mast explained.
“Now the Biden administration is saying, we don’t want to allow that to happen,” he said. Mast sent a letter to VA Secretary Denis McDonough last week demanding an explanation for this apparent “departure from long-standing practices.”
Remember before the first Gulf War when the VA was held up as a model for what an American Single Payer Health Care System would be like? Advocates stopped using the VA once it’s faults were revealed.
Yeah, I miss reading Uwe’s columns. I probably disagreed with more than I agreed, but they were always thought-provoking.