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<blockquote data-quote="StLPro2A" data-source="post: 3659471" data-attributes="member: 48052"><p>Question: What are your thoughts, perspectives, experiences?? Why do we need VA hospitals at all. There is nothing in the medical field that the VA performs that is not available in the private sector. Public sector treats more gunshot wounds than the military. Explosive injuries probably not, but the technology resides in both sectors. Most VA doctors work simultaneously in both private and VA arenas. We vets should be able to go to our physician of choice in the private sector with the VA paying the bills at negotiated reimbursements, ala Medicare. Medical care would be equal ,or in sadly too many instances, much better. My son, a military doctor, while serving his residency, worked sessions at Bremerton in WA, Walter Reed and Bethesda in DC. Shortly after beginning there, he called admonishing me NOT go to any VA facility, either my Dad or myself. To this day, he has that experience/perception. Think of all the money that cold be saved by utilizing existing public medical resources rather than another bloated, ineffective, marginally functional, costly government program. Dad always went to private physician, only taking the script to the VA doctor for entry into the VA system from where he was sent the medications. He had to visit VA doctor once annually for bureaucratic blessing.....never, never any issue, questions. or conflict with the private care.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="StLPro2A, post: 3659471, member: 48052"] Question: What are your thoughts, perspectives, experiences?? Why do we need VA hospitals at all. There is nothing in the medical field that the VA performs that is not available in the private sector. Public sector treats more gunshot wounds than the military. Explosive injuries probably not, but the technology resides in both sectors. Most VA doctors work simultaneously in both private and VA arenas. We vets should be able to go to our physician of choice in the private sector with the VA paying the bills at negotiated reimbursements, ala Medicare. Medical care would be equal ,or in sadly too many instances, much better. My son, a military doctor, while serving his residency, worked sessions at Bremerton in WA, Walter Reed and Bethesda in DC. Shortly after beginning there, he called admonishing me NOT go to any VA facility, either my Dad or myself. To this day, he has that experience/perception. Think of all the money that cold be saved by utilizing existing public medical resources rather than another bloated, ineffective, marginally functional, costly government program. Dad always went to private physician, only taking the script to the VA doctor for entry into the VA system from where he was sent the medications. He had to visit VA doctor once annually for bureaucratic blessing.....never, never any issue, questions. or conflict with the private care. [/QUOTE]
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