Trump transition floats more private options for veterans' health care

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Upping the ante on his calls to reform the veterans health care system, President-elect Donald Trump on Wednesday convened a meeting to explore additional ways to enable veterans to obtain private medical treatment, a senior transition official told reporters.

Trump met with a group of private-sector health care executives, including Mayo Clinic chief executive John Noseworthy and Cleveland Clinic CEO Toby Cosgrove, who is considered a top contender to be the next secretary of Veterans Affairs.

The group discussed "how would you implement a program that could get vets the ability to go to any hospital that they wanted to go to," the transition official said.

"We think we have to have kind of a ... public-private option," the official added. "It's one of the options on the table."

http://www.politico.com/blogs/donald-trump-administration/2016/12/veterans-health-care-233021

In other words "Fuck you vets! My cronies want to make big bucks off you."

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1. Trump doesn't know

his ass from a hole in the ground. FTD!

[Wellstone ruled]

2. Pay back to the Koch Brothers.

They are waiting to purchase all of the VA facilities as soon as ink on the paper is dry. The Media is not going to cover this no way no how. Koch's are known to threaten to pull their ads and there you are.

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3. My father goes to the VA in Fort Hamilton...

for all of his routine care. He's 94 and a veteran of Normandy and the Battle of the Bulge.

They treat him with respect that borders on reverence.

However, when he needed cataract surgery last year his VA doctors could not make up their minds on how to proceed. He has macular degeneration in one eye and they were wary that if something went wrong with the procedure on his good eye he could be left blind. So they went back and forth trying to decide which eye to correct. Complicating the matter, VA doctors get rotated out periodically, so by the time one of them makes a decision they leave and another team of doctors has to go through the evaluation process all over again.

After waiting six months, I brought him to my opthamologist who performed the procedure. His opinion was that he would NOT have performed the surgery on his bad eye because it would not have improved his sight. In his opinion, surgery on the bad eye could be considered unnecessary surgery. All's well that ends well. He has his sight back, but I paid my private doctor for the procedure.

My Dad loves the VA. He's there today for his cardiology check-up. But I made the decision to go private for a delicate procedure that could have left him blind if it went bad. Thankfully I have the resources. Many do not.