The fact is this whole business with the VA makes loads of money for the news organizations who play it to death.

When I got out of the military back in 1972 I was told that if I had any health issues to take care of them now because "you don't want to put your fate in the hands of the VA". When I was looking for work I investigated the VA and was told by their employees it was a terrible place to work for a multitude of reasons.

Govt agencies are not businesses. If I go to the bank and I have to wait in line for 30 minutes I'm going to find another bank and they know that. Govt agencies get appropriations from Congress and there is a hierarchy within departments and the VA is on the same level as the Bureau of Prisons. No one in Congress ever cared about the VA and they have always been a broken agency barely able to function. As I've said before I knew two MDs and a RN who worked for them and the stories they told you wouldn't believe. They all eventually quit. yea I know this guy and that guy loves the VA but all and all the stories aren't in agreement.

So now everyone makes this big stink and Congress wants to know what happened. They should all look at themselves in the mirror for the answers. There are bunches of Govt agencies who are in the same boat as the VA but no one knows or cares until something happens and then the blame game begins.

The question I pose to all of you who think Govt is too big and bloated and has too many regulations is how did it get that way and why did it get that way?????