What we are concerned with is 'the death by a thousand cuts' whereby it can easily be stated that allowing large numbers of veterans into the private sector while not fixing long-term recruitment, hiring, and retainment for necessary staff... is a very slow and painful way to bleed the VA health care system dry of funds.
Roe warns that privatizing veteran care could harm the VA system financially.
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As long as I am in the Congress I will never vote to see the VA do a major project again.
If you were, you wouldn't behave like this. And nobody would spend their own money like this.
I want to give the VA a shout-out and there are some--obviously, we are going over some problems today that the VA had, but all in all I think the VA probably has the opportunity to be one of the best systems in the country.
But I am mindful of something Rahm Emanuel said when he was chief of staff to President Obama in 2009. He said you never let a serious crisis go to waste. I am afraid some of us are doing that here.
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