No.cradleandshoot wrote: ↑Mon May 22, 2023 2:31 pmIt will last as long as Chuck Schumer runs the Senate. I don't think he is going away anytime soon. You seem to have some sort of a problem with veterans getting the quality healthcare they deserve, does that bother you in some way?jhu72 wrote: ↑Mon May 22, 2023 1:50 pm... it is the biggest problem the VA has. It is not just the politicians and bureaucrats, ultimately it is the citizens who don't want to pay what it really costs.Farfromgeneva wrote: ↑Fri May 19, 2023 3:31 pmSomehow politicians and bureaucrats never contemplate or understand Opex…the only discussions are capex. Hence my major distrust on spending (second order events in general but when any generic kid can learn to model Argus to hear DCF models for CRE projects line item by line item I don’t understand how this happens every single time where nobody was prepared for the opex)jhu72 wrote: ↑Fri May 19, 2023 10:35 am... over the past 40 years I have (my company) been involved in supplying equipment and software for many dozens of new VA hospitals and clinics across the US. I am glad that they finally got around to your old VA facility. But the fact stands, what you have seen has been seen by many dozens of VA facilities in the US over the past 40 years. What you will see over the next 20 years is what has been seen by all the other VA facilities, an inability to sustain this bright shiny new facility due to insufficient operating budgets. I am sure you will avoid this because your facility and you are special.cradleandshoot wrote: ↑Fri May 19, 2023 2:30 amYou never had the privilege of having to use the old VA outpatient clinic on Westfall Rd. The place was a chithole and an embarrassment to veterans health care. They did finally get it right Dr Wizard. The desperate need for help for these veterans could finally not be ignored any longer. My primary care physician works out of the new facility on Caulkins Rd. I'm willing to give credit where credit is due. The government did get it right but it did not come about easily. I enjoy using my facility, I enjoy chatting with all the veterans while we are waiting to see our doctor. All a person needs to do is look at the baseball caps these old soldiers wear on their head when they come in. The conversation follows.jhu72 wrote: ↑Thu May 18, 2023 3:51 pmThey didn't just finally get it right. I have been telling you for as long as these forums have existed, the VA does a really good job when funded properly. The problem today is that funding remains spotty. When a new facility is brought online it is properly funded, but as time goes by they become less effective because we don't continue funding the facility at the needed level. New facilities are always great.cradleandshoot wrote: ↑Mon Mar 13, 2023 10:48 amThe VA is finally getting it right. I guess after the sacrifice of so many of our young people they are stepping up big-time. I went to the new VA facility on Caulkins Rd in Rochester last fall. I always thank every veteran I meet for their service. When I went into that facility with my 82nd airborne baseball cap the people that took care of me thanked me for my service. When I looked at all of the young and old veterans that day I was so grateful that our government finally started to pay back a debt to these men and women who sacrificed so much for their country. The government can get healthcare right. I don't have a link. I hope all of you look up the VA hospital on Caulkins Rd. I thought for a long time that taking care of our veterans was lip service. They finally got it right.a fan wrote: ↑Sun Mar 12, 2023 1:55 pmThe VA isn’t properly funded. That’s it. That’s the problem. If it was, they’d get whatever is needed, full stop. No red tape. Just show your ID—-and get what you need. Instead? You get a system that’s designed to say “no” because they don’t have money. Bet they waste hundreds of millions to have processors paid to say “no, you can’t prove this happened on the battlefield.”youthathletics wrote: ↑Sun Mar 12, 2023 9:29 amThe problem with that cartoon is that it represents what socialized medicine already looks like in the USA....its called the VA.Brooklyn wrote: ↑Sun Mar 12, 2023 12:57 am "Free" market wizardry sure does a great job of curing cancer:
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It's time to stop with the "free" market idiotology and come up with a universal health care package for all.
Oops, we already of what so many are pandering for, and its evident it does not work any better, may been worse than what we already have.
Wanna see real socialist care? UMichigan. UMaryland. UCLA—-all government medical personnel. Best care in the world. But as I’ve said 1,000 times ——fake conservatives think “that doesn’t count as socialism “. Sorry, it counts.
C&S: Chuck Schumer Won't save you. No single politician will. All VA facilities run short of the needed operating budget to maintain facility effectiveness. Enjoy it while it lasts.
You seem to have a problem with reality.