Should there be more or less privatization of veterans’ healthcare?

More to help release the deficit, but also put a lot of regulations and restrictions on it to make it where veterans can get the best of the best that they can get and they have to actually help them and all that and not screw them over

More but not a very much amount and how there should be oversight and regulations to help stop corruption all that and how try to find the best doctors for these veterans and how they will sacrifice a lot of money to find the best for these heroes

I feel like we should fix the system to make it. Weather could be private and national of a sharing of both and to make the veterans have the best doctor they can have.

The VA is necessary because the healthcare professionals are trained on the specific needs faced by veteran patient populations including mental health such as PTSD and suicidal ideation as well as combat related injuries including chemical warfare exposure. Patients should allowed to seek and use other health services, but it does not have to come from the VA budget

The debate around privatizing veterans healthcare is complex, with arguments for and against increased reliance on the private sector. While some suggest that private care can offer efficiency and access, others argue that the VA's integrated system provides better, coordinated care for veterans with complex needs.
Arguments for More Privatization:
Increased Access and Choice:
Some argue that expanding private sector options would give veterans more choices and potentially shorter wait times for certain specialized treatments, particularly in areas where VA facilities are limited.
Read moreEfficiency and Cost Savings:
Proponents of privatization suggest that the private sector can deliver healthcare more efficiently and at lower costs than the VA, potentially freeing up resources for other veterans' needs.
Flexibility and Innovation:
The private sector is seen as more adaptable to changing healthcare needs and capable of incorporating new technologies and approaches more quickly than the VA.
Arguments Against More Privatization:
Loss of Coordination and Continuity of Care:
Critics argue that moving away from the VA's integrated system could lead to a fragmented and less coordinated healthcare experience for veterans, especially those with complex and chronic conditions.
Potential for Reduced Quality and Increased Costs:
Some studies suggest that private sector healthcare can sometimes be lower in quality and more expensive than VA care, particularly for veterans with complex needs.
Risk of Undermining the VA's Mission:
Critics fear that increased privatization could lead to a weakening of the VA's role and mission as a provider of comprehensive and specialized care for veterans.
Lack of Oversight and Accountability:
There are concerns that privatized healthcare could lead to a lack of oversight and accountability, potentially allowing for poor quality care and financial mismanagement.
Unequal Access:
Some argue that privatization could exacerbate existing inequalities in access to healthcare, as

I support funding the current system to expand access to veterans to seek treatment with a doctor of their choice

Veterans, government employees, politicians, everyone should have the same healthcare options and we should subsidize premiums for injured Veterans, maybe all veterans.

i feel like if they need it for medical reasons its okay but if just becuase they want to be ¨perfect¨ no

there should be competition between private and non private healthcare for veterans to increase quality while also lowering prices

This problem exists because of a bunch of more simple problems. I say just solve the source problems rather than doing spaghetti legislation.

when a veteran lives too far from va provided care, access to local care should be made available or if the wait times are too long at the local clinic or provider and the VA system should be improved

More, but staffing should be better regulated to ensure vets are having the highest quality treatment. Limit the negative impacts of patient care as a result of unions and walls to removing employees.

I think the VA needs to be expanded so that veterans in remote and other rural areas do not have to suffer the burden of long drives in order to receive care. I have seen cases where a hospital denies medical care to veterans in the ER, where an administrator basically screams at a veteran demanding who was going to pay for the care--the VA would have, of course, but no person in a medical emergency should have to tolerate this behavior before getting care because it is at its core an attempt to deny care.

No change in level of privatization, but veterans should be able to elect into an HSA option should they choose to not utilize VA options or if insufficient VA options are available

More, veterans should be able to see a doctor who is an expert and taking care of veterans, especially if the veterans have ptsd so they can see early cases of prevention of self-removal.

Our veterans should get anything they need from the USA. So sad that illegal immigrants get more than our veterans. Just horrible!

It doesn't matter, as long as they are getting the healthcare that they need at an affordabe price-it should be their choice to use public or private healthcare

We should provide universal healthcare for everyone with an increased emphasis on mental health care, especially for the veterans.

The VA system should be revamped and expanded. All doctors should be required to take veterans' insurances.

Less, veterans need psychological support as well as more healthcare security as right now psychological issues are not protected

as long as healthcare is free for those who need it

The entire veterans' healthcare system should be socialized.

Healthcare for all and no setbacks

There should be less privatization and more funds should be given to public healthcare, but we should allow veterans to use their healthcare with a doctor of their choice.

More, Veteran healthcare should be completely privatized

Less, and we should socialize medicine and healthcare

There should be none

all healthcare should be free

Medicare for Veterans with reduced out of pocket cost

More, but improves the VA.

Não tenho conhecimento do assunto.

Less, and improve VA.

Veterans should be granted equal healthcare to any other citizen

Everyone should have full medical benefits/single payer

Less, we should have single payer socialized medicine.

i dont really care??

Don’t know enough about it

Regardless of Veteran status, all US Citizens should have single-payer healthcare, Medicare For All.

Regardless, I support a single payer system

Less, we should improve it instead.

Do not feel educated enough on the topic to provide a valid opinion of it.

Replace the VA healthcare system with an HSA and allow them to see the doctor of their choice.

if there was a single payer system we wouldnt need it.

Lets set up a thing called 'OPEN MARKET' to make things competetive at the lowest price point possible

Same amount of privatization.

Keep the status quo.

Нет частному здравоохранению

People should have choice of private or public institutions

More, veterans should be given vouchers proportional to their injuries and should be able to see any doctor of their choice.

Depends on what the individual

I'd prefer an alternative. No privatization pls.

The same they get now

I am unsure and take a neutral stance.

I think it's fine as is.

Private options should be available, and the extent to which veterans' healthcare grows privatized depends on the performance of the open market; however, the VA should have more funding

dont really have a opinion

No Privatization

some privatization that veterans should have a choice with improvement to the current systems

I do not have an opinion on this issue.

It should vary based on where and when the veterans were deployed. Injuries obtained should also be taken into account.

I’m mixed….

Less, because no healthcare should be privatized

Less, and we should switch to something like the NHS in the UK.

I don't have enough knowledge about this.

V.A. benefits should apply to all health providers, at a set rate. the veterans' earned this.

Fund universal health care

Same, EQUAL

Should be irrelevant. Healthcare should be completely run by government

Veteran served our country and should therefore receiving the best healthcare available provide by our government.

Up to veterans

No, privatization is unacceptable

We should switch to a single payer healthcare system, which would render the VA system irrelevant.

They should be enrolled in Medicare.

We should get rid of all privatzed healthcare.

I mean I don't 'know

Less and More. We should increase funding to better the current system but veterans should be allowed to see whichever doctors or specialists they need.

More, they should also have the right to free mental health

Less privatization, but veterans should be allowed to see any doctor they want.

More, and Reform with Medicaid for all who want it.

Veterans should be medically covered under a single-payer system alongside other benefits provided by the VA

Needs to be transformed to a service entity, geared to help veterans. With poor customer service, and negligence as being reasons to terminate employees.

Protect veterans at all cost, especially from homelessness

A single payer health care system is optimal.

Less because in eliminates unnecessary billing departments, and managerial costs associated with sales, billing, etc. We should increase funding to improve the current system instead.

Veteran's healthcare should not be an seperate system.

Neither, its fine how it is.

Veteran's healthcare should be fully regulated by the government.

100% Government funding of Veteran Healthcare. Only for veterans who have actually served 1+ tour in another nation (or ours, in the event of attack on US soil).

Socialize healthcare so they don't have to join for benefits

If we have universal healthcare in the US, this problem could be solved as well as many others.

no opinion, as long as they get the healthcare they need

We should have a single payer system that prioritizes veterans

I need to do more research on this subject, as I am not as knowledgeable in this field.

Free health care for all. Everything covered. Humans first. We deserve too thrive.

Government sent them to battle. They can at the very least take care of thier health.

I don't have enough information to form a useful opinion.