VA still not fixed

[Vroom_C14]

If I recall the POTUS, he was fixing this... does this show that simply throwing money at an issue doesn't resolve it?

President Obama: “[T]he number one priority is making sure that problems get fixed so that if there’s a veteran out there who needs help, that they’re getting a schedule and they’re able to come in and see a doctor...”

Appointment wait times at the Department of Veterans Affairs are not getting better.

Despite billions of extra dollars poured into the agency in the last year and numerous reforms intended to improve veterans' access to care, whistleblowers and internal documents obtained by CNN reveal some VA facilities continue to grapple with appointment wait times of months or more.

Even at the Phoenix VA medical center, where CNN learned last year "secret" appointment lists were hiding how veterans were dying waiting for care, sources say complicated wait-time calculations obscure ongoing appointment delays.

"The reality is veterans are waiting months -- three, six months at a time, sometimes more -- for care at the Phoenix VA," said one source in Phoenix who agreed to speak to CNN anonymously because of fears of retaliation.

http://www.cnn.com/2015/10/20/politics/veterans-delays-va-hospitals/?iid=ob_homepage_deskrecommended_pool&iref=obnetwork

 

[JWolf74]

How do you propose things get fixed? Farm it out to private physicians? Would they be required to take those patients or would they be contracted by the VA? Bring in a lot of new doctors? But this would require paying them competitively to draw them in, likely more than private practice to offset having to deal with the beurocracy and bad EMR system. Perhaps offer student loan incentives to newly graduated medical residents to provide care? I rather like the last option. I would consider it myself, even though I'm really not interested in primary care.