The VA IS For Veterans Not For Some Corporation
The VA should not be privatized, non-profit or not, because it will become even more top heavy with salaried manager and managers to managers, etc. The VA is one of the biggest landowners in the United States, and for years there has been a move to make it a for profit corporation, and it would be that way under a non-profit.
Just look at some of the big charities and see how much their top leaders make. And if it becomes a non-profit and government chartered, then it will have to serve anyone who walks in, including illegals. Then the VA land and hospitals will suddenly disappear as they are sold off.
To me this is just a move to take over the VA and dismantle it. We fight the wars and now they don't really want to take care of us when they are finished with us. I agree that if the VA can't perform a certain procedure, it should be sent out for the service. This is nothing new. The VA has been doing it for years.
The main focus of the VA should always be the veteran, and mainly the disabled veteran. No one, and I mean no one, should be allowed to take the VA away from the veterans. So from my viewpoint, and this is the same movement that was tried back in the 80's, this is an attempt to gain control of the VA by outside forces, for profit and socialized serve anyone who walks in hospitals medicine.
Do you think the former CEO of P&G was put in charge by chance? He's a corporate man, put there to find ways to make the VA a for profit corporation.
The non-profit organization Concerned Veterans for America has sponsored a study entitled "Fixing Veterans Health Care."
The report advocates radical changes in the medical system for veterans, including a choice to receive subsidized private care and conversion of the Veterans Administration into a non-profit corporation rather than a government agency.
More Veterans should be able to choose where to get their health care. Based on eligibility, veterans should have the option to take their earned health care funds and use them to access care at the VA or in the voluntary (civilian) health care system.
Because private health care is somewhat costlier than VHA-based care, most veterans who choose this option will be expected to share in some of the costs of such care, through co-pays and deductibles.
Don't anyone go along with any attempts to take the VA away from the veterans. Never. It’s all we have and now the private sector wants it.
