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Captain Obvious
07-31-2014, 08:35 AM
http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2014/07/30/336685250/house-approves-16-billion-plan-to-improve-healthcare-for-vets


The House voted Wednesday to approve a bill that would address widespread problems with health care for veterans.

The vote in favor of the $16.3 billion package was 420 to 5.

Peter1469
07-31-2014, 08:51 AM
House and Senate negotiators to address the problems on Monday. The deal provides $10 billion for veterans to see private doctors if they live far away from VA facilities or have to wait more than two weeks to get an appointment.

This will help me. I still want them to consider VA health coverage to be supplemental coverage for private insurance. (Two weeks is not a reasonable amount of time for a non-emergency, especially for a specialist.)

Mainecoons
07-31-2014, 08:54 AM
Throwing good money after bad. And also still giving those VA "managers" bonuses.

This bill is a graphic example of why the Federal government is a flaming failure. It simply refuses to change regardless of how badly it performs.

Watch. Almost no one will get fired, they'll continue to be paid too much for too little, and the Vets will continue to get lousy health care.

Captain Obvious
07-31-2014, 09:00 AM
Throwing good money after bad. And also still giving those VA "managers" bonuses.

This bill is a graphic example of why the Federal government is a flaming failure. It simply refuses to change regardless of how badly it performs.

Watch. Almost no one will get fired, they'll continue to be paid too much for too little, and the Vets will continue to get lousy health care.

There really isn't a lot of money at the ground level in the VA - CEO/CFO of hospitals, etc. The job sucks because the care delivery sucks and running a gubment organization sucks. CEO's/CFO's in the industry avoid the VA because it's almost a resume killer.

For-profit hospitals is where it's at, for earnings. They'll pay you handsomely but they'll also kick your ass and fire you the minute margins are down. The average CFO lifespan in the for-profit hospital world is like just over 3 years.

protectionist
08-01-2014, 01:27 AM
This will help me. I still want them to consider VA health coverage to be supplemental coverage for private insurance. (Two weeks is not a reasonable amount of time for a non-emergency, especially for a specialist.)

I just had a surgery 3 months ago by a private doctor, to whom I was referred to by the VA, and the VA paid for every penny of it. Being referred to private doctors by the VA, is already being done, but maybe this bill will make there be MORE of it, which is a good thing.

protectionist
08-01-2014, 01:30 AM
Throwing good money after bad. And also still giving those VA "managers" bonuses.

This bill is a graphic example of why the Federal government is a flaming failure. It simply refuses to change regardless of how badly it performs.

Watch. Almost no one will get fired, they'll continue to be paid too much for too little, and the Vets will continue to get lousy health care.

You're judging before the fact, but that's OK. Everyone is entitled to make predictions. Time will tell. We'll watch it carefully, and we'll know before long.

Libhater
08-01-2014, 05:58 AM
I just had a surgery 3 months ago by a private doctor, to whom I was referred to by the VA, and the VA paid for every penny of it. Being referred to private doctors by the VA, is already being done, but maybe this bill will make there be MORE of it, which is a good thing.

The VA hospital I now go to is one of largest I've seen, and they still send me out to a private firm to get my MRI and a couple of other services. Going through the PTSD cycle of appointments with psychologists and psychiatrists up in Boston became way too much of a load for the staff to where they sent us to private psyches on a fee basis in our home towns so as to cut the cost of travel pay into the city.


Seems to me the big problem with the VA comes in the form of this latest scandal in the administrative scheduling and backlog of new patients and of old patients who have serious health issues. I have had no problem with my individual healthcare needs and the promptness of the doctors seeing me on a designated appointment time.