Another step toward Trump VA privatization

Plans by despicable, asshole greedheads to privatize the Veterans Administration, and then strip it to the bone for profit, certainly predate the Traitor Trump “presidency.” But Trump is all for it, and tying those efforts to the most loathed and despised president at least since the invention of polling seems to me entirely justified political rhetoric.

On Wednesday, the Trump administration proposed new rules, known as access standards, to automatically make veterans eligible for private care. Instead of 30 days, it’s 20 days for primary care or 28 days for specialty care. Instead of 40 miles, it’s a 30-minute drive for primary care or a 60-minute drive for specialty care...

“Today’s announcement hastily rolling out new access standards places core VA services and vital research programs at risk by shifting money towards care outside VA,” House veterans committee chairman Mark Takano said in a statement on Wednesday, vowing to hold a hearing. “Today’s announcement places VA on a pathway to privatization and leads Congress to assume the worst.” - ProPublica