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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsLatest Trump Plan to Kill the VA
http://prospect.org/blog/tapped/trump-administration-moves-forward-on-va-privatizationThe plans is simple. Say you want to prevent veteran suicides. Everyone in Congress will vote for that. Then, pass a law requiring the VA to use its existing budget to provide unlimited mental health care with the private sector psychiatrist of his or her choice with no VA oversight. That means if the nations psychiatrists want to start seeing veterans three times a week for intensive Freudian psychoanalysis the VA pays. If they want to prescribe rest cures at mental health spas for up to 12 months, the VA pays. And since none of the private sector mental health providers wants to have a patient commit suicide, everyone who has ptsd depression and other severe illnesses will be punted back to the VA which will have no money left to treat veterans in need because all of its money will go for private sector waste and fraud. No insurance plan in this nation provides unlimited any kind of care without oversight-because it is a recipe for grand larceny (Trumps kind of business). We have all seen it with Medicare and Medicaid and they have strict oversight. What will happen when those who send in the bills do not have to prove that anything useful was done? A whole lot of money will be paid to people doing nothing.
If this goes through, the VA will quickly go bankrupt and veterans who rely upon its currently vast mental health service will have no help at all. Right now any veteran can walk into any VA mental health facility and be seen now. There is a well staffed 24 hour emergency line. There are social workers who will find you a place to stay. It is easy to get admitted for inpatient drug and alcohol rehab (try doing that with a private insurance plan)
Ill bet that some enterprising Wall Street Bro somewhere is already setting up a chain of bogus mental health clinics designed to milk the VA for every dollar it has. Because that is the kind of value Trump stands for-steal from those in need like our veterans and give to those who write big campaign deals nation checks.
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Latest Trump Plan to Kill the VA (Original Post)
McCamy Taylor
Jun 2018
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mountain grammy
(26,655 posts)1. K & R and thanks for posting.
Hard to keep up these days.
N_E_1 for Tennis
(9,782 posts)2. As you well know...
The VA does not only take care of mental health problems. If what is speculated upon here materializes there will be plenty of sucides from the rest of the veterans being covered for other health conditions. If you cant afford the care elsewhere and cant live with your condition its an honorable way out.
Ill be on that list.
Clarity2
(1,009 posts)3. This keeps sending up red flags
that the election fix is in.
Hes alienated:
Minorities
Women
LGBT
Unions
and soon to come all the veterans & current military members
So who is there left to vote for him? Not much.
world wide wally
(21,755 posts)4. One thing you can count on is that they won't increase funding
braddy
(3,585 posts)5. The VA sucks, I use it and it is rife with incompetence and indifference.