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The exaggeration of 40 to 1 doesn't help. Is the VA mismanaged sure. The question is do we fix it or just abandon it as I suspect maggie is promoting here in this thread. Abandon it and you think the government is done, can wash its hands of the Veterans and there will be no bureaucrats all of a sudden - seriously? That won't fix anything except to make the already overburdened public health care system more rationed for everyone. And wowza...who you think's going to do the rationing? You've already seen radical leftist on these every forums have no trouble letting people head off to hospice rather then be cared for.
Actually, I am being rather generous there I think. The ratio in the VA between Medical and Non-medical staff is likely much closer to 100 to 1.
Remember, this is a Cabinet level bureaucracy that does a lot more then handle medical needs. Housing loans, student grants, educational benefits, pension checks, dependent checks, veteran funerals, maintaining veteran records, the list simply goes on and on and on and on.
Everybody keeps concentrating on the hospital system, but I see the entire organization as broken. From the weenie who keeps throwing my request for enlisted records for the last 7 years into the trash, to the non-medical administrator that fudges paperwork to make them look better when it comes time for their annual review.
However, a good and thorough house-cleaning can do wonders. Nothing will ever completely fix it, but getting rid of a lot of the bad administrators and putting in place a system to ensure that all complaints are handled will go a long ways.
And if your department gets to many complaints that are not resolved, then it is time to clean house in that department. Like in Military Records.
Funny how some random civilian can file a FOIA and get a record brief of somebody in a couple of weeks, but it takes years for a veteran to get their own DD-214.