Sen. Baldwin wants Justice Department review of Tomah VA

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http://www.newsobserver.com/2015/02/13/4553573_sen-baldwin-wants-justice-department.html?rh=1

My hope for this investigation is to increase funding for our vets. and medical staff.

Problem @ Veterans Hospital strained by a decade of multiple wars struggle to address 3 deaths. You can't expect best out comes with years of budget cuts to our Veterans and those who care for them. But then some might profit from a Veterans system that was destroyed to the point of privatizing it.

http://www.vox.com/2014/5/28/5755672/republicans-want-to-privatize-the-va-heres-the-counterargument

Veteran advocates, however, have a different take: privatization would undercut a system that specializes in veterans' needs.

The Republican proposal would overhaul the way veterans receive health care. Right now, the US Department of Veterans Affairs operates 150 medical centers and sees more than 8 million patients annually, making the VA health-care system the largest in the country.

Under the proposed privatization scheme, the federal government would pay veterans' bills when they obtain health care from private facilities. The hospitals and clinics currently run by the VA would remain in place, but likely have fewer patients — and perhaps funds — if veterans were offered the opportunity to go elsewhere.

In 2006 an article siting Veterans hospitals as proof that National Health Care worked.

http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1376238,00.html

Sen. Paul Ryan will work as hard as he can to cut the funding for these places that can run well enough to be used as a model for the rest of our health care needs.

http://www.fox8live.com/story/28083481/gao-veterans-health-care-costs-a-high-risk-for-taxpayers

http://vmwusa.org/index.php/healthcareservices/hcarticles/47-health/1079-va-care-end-eyed-for-13-million-vets