Obama is detached from reality. FYI: The Duffel Blog is a satirical military blog.
President Barack Obama adamantly opposes privatizing the Department of Veterans Affairs to improve the level of health care veterans receive.
“The notion of dismantling the VA system would be a mistake,” Obama told The Gazette on Thursday after he shook the hands of 812 new Air Force officers – all of whom will someday be veterans. He said his administration has made steady progress in modernizing the VA and providing veterans with more timely health care. Reinventing the system would derail that progress.
“If you look at, for example, VA health care, there have been challenges getting people into the system. Once they are in, they are extremely satisfied and the quality of care is very high,” Obama said during an interview he granted only to The Gazette in a locker room at Falcon Stadium after the Air Force Academy graduation.
The second-term Democrat has less than a year left in office but still has plans to tackle a number of things in the bureaucratic agency that provides health care and other benefits to the nation’s estimated 22 million veterans. “It’s a big ocean liner, and on any given day, given how far-flung the agency is, we’re still seeing problems crop up that we have to correct.
“I think the main message is that we’ve still got a lot of work to do. It’s an all-hands-on-deck process.”