Current GOP Tax Plan

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(12-07-2017, 04:02 PM)oncemoreuntothejimbreech Wrote: If the long wait times are to be believed, shoe horning nonmedical ancillary services in with VA hospitals medical services will only further burden the system.

Asking the VA to provide housing is like asking HUD to provide cancer screening. That's not what they do and they aren't set up to do it. My first impression is this is Ben Carson's uninformed and misguided idea of cutting funding for the sake of cutting funding

Then the magic of privatization will come along and fix all the problems.

The sinister underlying decision is similar to the tax plan. Strip all the funding for a public run program, act aghast when it collapses, blame it on government waste, hand control over to some company to make profits from tax dollars.