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Too Big to Change

June 9, 2014 By Debbie Young

Senators Bernie Sander (left) and John McCain (right).

Where did the news go? After being front and center for over a week, you are hard pressed to find even a short paragraph on the Veteran Affairs Department and how the “toxic milieu” is going to be righted. Now we have senators Bernie Sanders and John McCain announcing a bipartisan deal on legislation to help reform the VA’s systemic corruption. In “Political Triage at the VA,” the WSJ asserts that “the VA’s problems run far deeper than a new hospital building or more spending can solve.”

In last week’s opinion page of the WSJ, Hal Scherz, a doctor from Georgia wrote,

The VA health-care system is a disaster. Throwing more money at the system of demanding the scalps of top bureaucrats—Washington’s reflexive response to any problem of this sort—won’t repair the mess. What’s needed is a fundamental rethinking of how to provide medical care for America’s veterans. … The VA health-care system is run by a centrally controlled federal bureaucracy. Ultimately, that is thee source of the poor care veterans receive.

“Outraged” senators on both sides of the aisle can pass the McCain/Sanders legislation, feel good about themselves, and wash their hands of the nasty stew. And what our country’s veterans are left with is the Senate’s non-reform reform once again betraying them.

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Debbie, our chief political writer of Richardcyoung.com, is also our chief domestic affairs writer, a contributing writer on Eastern Europe and Paris and Burgundy, France. She has been associate editor of Dick Young’s investment strategy reports for over five decades. Debbie lives in Key West, Florida, and Newport, Rhode Island, and travels extensively in Paris and Burgundy, France, cooking on her AGA Cooker, driving through Vermont and Maine, and practicing yoga. Debbie has completed the 200-hour Krama Yoga teacher training program taught by Master Instructor Ruslan Kleytman. Debbie is a strong supporting member of the NRA.
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