> He brags about the quality and speed of his healthcare all the time. This is in Charlotte, NC. Different offices might be different.
The VA is run in a federated fashion, so there is a massive variation in how well they operate.
The problem with the VA isn't that literally every hospital is terrible. The problem is that:
(1) a lot are bad
(2) the bad ones are really terrible
(3) the bad ones are consistently bad over time, with no success in improving them
Part (3) is the really damning one, because it's not like there haven't been efforts to fix the issues with the VA. But because the US is such a heterogeneous country, the successes of Portland don't translate well to Memphis.
The VA is run in a federated fashion, so there is a massive variation in how well they operate.
The problem with the VA isn't that literally every hospital is terrible. The problem is that:
(1) a lot are bad
(2) the bad ones are really terrible
(3) the bad ones are consistently bad over time, with no success in improving them
Part (3) is the really damning one, because it's not like there haven't been efforts to fix the issues with the VA. But because the US is such a heterogeneous country, the successes of Portland don't translate well to Memphis.