The VA has been a shitty alternative for veterans for over 30 years, we in the medical community have been bitching for decades. It's not a right problem or a left problem.
It's not a money problem, we've more than doubled the VA budget in the last 10 years and this is while the WWII vets are dying off, it's a fucking leadership problem in the VA system.
It's administrative costs are bloated, it's legacy costs are bloated, it's union costs are bloated, it's bonuses are bloated, it's staffing is heavy on the high paid administrative side, low on the provider side.
The VA has a lot of problems still, the ones that were brought to the forefront haven't been addressed and people would rather figure out which political party to blame instead of finding out the real problems and solving them.
Political hacks are the worst man, don't be THAT guy. The VA shouldn't be politicized by idiots, it's should be criticized by
See how easy that was? You identified a problem and posed a solution without going all hacky.
The VA used to house a lot of our mentally ill too and most of those have been converted to meeting rooms or sold to local colleges. So the spending has tripled, but the services have dwindled. Still think it's because of one party only?