Your probably right about the doctors, I was mostly referring to their administration. I know some vets are employee'd by the VA but most never served, and there's more than enough vets qualified to be Directors, and who could also fill those upper, middle, and clerk positions, as we see in most military post, for example: Ft.Sam Houston, near San Antonio, and Brooks Medical Center. Although they do employee civilians most of their staff are made up of active personnel, who carry out the same functions. Who better understands, and how to best care for military personnel?. Same goes for those who become inactive, or had or have been sent home for war injuries?. Veterans seeking employment at these various facilities and whose military positions carry over,find themselves either competing with civilians, or only to learn no positons ever become available having filled what may be available with civilians who applied, and or to learn that the govt is cutting staff positions. Over-time, and having used these various tactics the VA slots have been filled with mostly civilians. My point is that there is honor among vets, who look out for their own. Civilians have shown that when it comes to government funding, so much of the money that should be used toward veterans care, gets buried in their beauracracy, and higher paid salaries, and benefits, and as we can see by that article down right misuse of funds.
The govt is not innocent either.
I agree with your points, any American who has legitimate disabilities, both young and old deserve equal care, and many just cannot take care or fend for themselves, and we should make sure as a nation they are given the best of care. This should remain seperated from military personnel who come home with war related injuries. The govt should not be allowed to lump these together, the DOD should not be allowed to divert this responsiblity by shifting war injured personnel onto Medicare that they keep telling us is overburdened. If the govt does not have the funds to take care of America's vets how in the world is it gonna take care of the Health care issues of the entire nation?
Remember when the Congress tried to list Vietnam as a Police Action, as opposed to a War?...........Ever see police action?. Has any ever resembled the likes of Vietnam, or the one we were engaged in prior, Korea?. They wanted to do this for one reason and one reason alone.........to shirk the responsibitlies they forced on our American young people from political wars they created, and who listened to the voice of large corporations who were either looking for resources, or the means of expansion so they could exploit those countries, as they have this one, and boy have they ever,,,,,,,,,,,,,China, India, and various other countries are now in their crosshairs.
