VA email translated from duckspeak to plain English.

[usonian]

VA INVESTS IN LOCAL CARE

VA made more than $36 billion in payments to local healthcare providers across the nation in FY2025 as part of the bipartisan MISSION Act, even as it spent $101 billion in direct VA care. VA is committed to providing Veterans with the best health care choices for them, bringing community options to our most rural Veterans and connecting Veterans with specialists in the community.

Translation: WE ARE PRIVATIZING THE V.A.

I live in a remote community and the local hospital is a textbook example of management by smoke and mirrors.

Small community hospitals are often insolvent, and bought by mega-corporations, with their management paid handsomely for the sale and accompanying decline in QOS and increase in corporate profits.

How they get certified is a mystery to me.

Hey, VA, spend some of that $36 billion on rides to better facilities than the local MASH unit.