An Ohio congressman wants to force all Capitol Hill lawmakers and their staff to receive health care from the Department of Veterans Affairs to ensure they have incentive to improve the system.
But the top Democrat on the House Veterans’ Affairs Committee is blasting the idea as little more than a publicity stunt.
On Tuesday, Rep. Warren Davidson, R-Ohio, introduced his “Lead by Example” act, which would require all members of Congress and several thousand staffers to enroll in VA medical care “instead of under the Federal Health Benefits Program or other health care exchanges.”
“Providing our veterans with the highest quality care is a bipartisan issue, one which nearly all the presidential candidates ran on,” he said in a statement. “Overhauling the VA is no easy task and will require consistent and intentional Congressional oversight for years to come. My bill will ensure members of Congress have stakes in improving the failing program.”
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This sounds really great up front but anyone who has been around as long as I have knows what will really happen. Our Congress Jerks (not real men or women) would get full priority at the expense of the vets. The jerks would get appointment priority pushing back appointments for vets. When a Congress jerk walked into the facility, everyone in the place would drop what they were doing to get the jerk the best service and out as quickly as possible increasing the wait time and decreasing quality of service for vets even more. It would just get worse for our vets.
We do not need this kind of simple minded stupidity. We just need to get rid of the jerks and replace them with real humans.
I hate it when people come up with great sounding, simple-minded, stupid ideas that make things worse instead of actually solving the problem.