President Trump participates in the signing ceremony of the VA Mission Act of 2018, a bill that will introduce sweeping reforms to the Veterans Affairs healthcare system.
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His pen has been busy today. He just granted clemency to Alice Johnson too.
I like that he has Pence around a lot. Obama hardly ever had Uncle Joe around. Couldn’t risk having him grope some girl or say something only a drunk would say.
This is a great change for veterans. MAGA!!
0bama totally wanted to take care of both the VA issues and Alice Johnson, but he was just too busy taking selfies.
This had to hurt. Alice Johnson’s daughter publicly thanking President Trump on MSNBC.
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The VA I do contract work for thinks it’s the Apocalypse now that’s it’s signed. I asked if they were going to have their job descriptions restructured so that they become more efficient to meet the higher demands and veteran’s needs and they looked at me like I was completely crazy (some docs here see 4 patients per week, yes you read that right). I have been smiling a lot lately……
Why do we have a VA medical system? It’s more expensive and less efficient than private care. Shut it down and create an entity that insures eligibility, issues the equivalent of a “credit card” to pay for this care, and pay the bill when care is charged to the card.
I worked for the VA for 6 months in a “Community Based Outpatient Clinic.” I’ve never seen such blatant disregard for patient safety, rampant careerism and unprofessional behavior in my career.
Examples:
A diabetic patient presented with an infected foot ulcer. I called the nearest VA wound clinic to arrange immediate referral, to be told that nothing could be done for over a week. Since he also had Medicare, I called a local hospital and got him in the same day. That got me in serious trouble with VA administration as it made them look bad.
Another patient had a history of chronic symptomatic heart palpitations and hadn’t been seen by cardiology in years. I referred him, only to be chewed out in print by the lazy VA cardiologist because I didn’t order what he wanted for a workup. His referral was cancelled. (In other words, I didn’t do his job for him. Oddly, I’ve never had that problem in the private sector.)
I got into frequent disagreements with the pharmacists, who can not only diagnose and treat (without a medical license or training), but also countermand your medical orders without consequences and without notifying you. This was frequently done solely to practice “on the cheap” regardless of medical necessity or appropriate standard of care.
I dealt with innumerable veterans who suffered from long-term addiction to opioids, having been prescribed them by the VA for inappropriate reasons. When I expressed my concern over the danger of overdose and lack of specialty pain management and addictionology care to administration, I was laughed at.
I quit and returned to private practice. It was gratifying to have a number of the VA patients follow me. In my mind, reforming the VA is a simple matter: 1) Give every qualified veteran Part A-D Medicare and a supplement so they never owe anything, 2) Shut down the entire system and turn the VA hospitals into assisted living facilities for veterans in need.