Tricking Veterans: Using Suicide and Mental Health Struggles as a Guise for Privatizing the VA

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This is an opinion piece in military.com. Well worth the read.

https://www.military.com/daily-news/opinions/2025/06/10/tricking-veterans-using-suicide-and-mental-health-struggles-guise-privatizing-va.html?ESRC=mr_250616.nl&utm_medium=email&utm_source=mr&utm_campaign=20250616

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1. This is so bad...

the VA is adept at dealing with the special circumstances surrounding veteran care. Private doc aren't. And there's one huge problem, no matter how you come down on that idea...

Unless you live in a BIG city, NO ONE has access to close, safe medical care. The hospitals have already closed. The "clinics" and emergency services that took their spaces are closing down now. We just lost the last one in this small city last year. We used to have 2 fully functioning hospitals here. Now, we no longer even have an emergency clinic! This is a military town. Take out the VA, and veterans will be pushed into the big city with the rest of us. At least a one hour drive, long wait times for appointments, and medicos not entrenched in the special circumstances of veterans. In addition, our VA here operates an "old folks" home, with onsite veteran nursing, for veterans. I can guess what's going to happen to it.

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2. It really sucks. Did you see the post by AZProgessive

in GD? https://democraticunderground.com/100220402849

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3. Yeah, I'm still trying to find my teeth after they fell out while reading it!

Now we know where and how all that DOGE information is going to be used. I've previously called trump an anti-christ, ala Nostradamus. I now change that to be THE Anti-Christ... and the mark of the beast will either be the red maga hat or a republican voter registration. I'm still blown away by that post. I hope some country takes pity on the millions of us who did not vote for this, and actively worked against it, such that we might be offered refugee status or asylum.