Trump admin says everything is hunky-dory at the VA.
But we found that the number of doctors at VA has dropped each month since Trump took office.
Nurses are way down too
We got the records.
www.propublica.org/article/vete...
by @davidarmstrongx.bsky.social @vernalcoleman.bsky.social and me.
Wait times for services has increased significantly. Now professionals triage in every service to try to mitigate the damage. This should not be happening. We have fulfilled our service contract, signed with our blood, and our brothers and sisters blood on the battlefields. People will die.
I went to law school with Doug Collins and audibly cursed when he was named to head the VA.
So neither hunky NOR dory.
Gutting everything by default in order to privatize a “failed” system.
I live one mile from my local VA and have seen a slow decline in the number of cars in staff parking lots between February and now.🙁
My pal in the Orlando area reported “ good service” from his team. Inoperable tumor . Radiation treatment. Botox for migraines. He is still working.
I’m checking with my vet in FL. He is there regularly.
nullifying all the CBAs will definitely help!
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I guess that you get for being "scukers and losers"
They bled for this country and gave their lives. Some were never the same afterwards. I know for grandpa 4th of July was hell on earth.
I can only speak for one VA, but this is absolutely happening here. Some of it was specialty providers who were hired 100% remote who do telehealth being ordered to work at the closest VA, in cramped “offices” with no privacy.
Gonna be far too late for a lot of active military and vets when they realize that not only does this Administration not give a shit about them, but they affirmatively hate them
I had my annual exam yesterday. Went in and saw a <1 month on the job resident. He was nice and did decent patient interview, but had no idea how to run his computer. They initially told me I would see my primary care Doctor after, but ended my visit after seeing the Resident. (1)
This is by design. Make the system unworkable for veterans in order to speed up privatization of VA healthcare like they did to the Military Healthcare System.
That mirrors what my friends who use the VA are telling me.
He's letting every single citizen of this country down.
The original # was 80k. Not exactly trying to retain or hire, I'd bet. Nobody wants to work for this regime either. news.va.gov/press-room/v...
VA on pace to reduce total VA staff by nearly 30,000 employees by the end of fiscal year 2025, eliminating the need for a large-scale reduction-in-force.
great work, @ericumansky.bsky.social and @propublica.org
Trump and his apparatchiks despise our troops and want them sick and dying when they aren’t ordering them to turn their guns on their fellow citizens.
Hey JD! Has anyone ever called you a #bluefalcon? 🤣🤣🤣
I quit. The VA is doing more harm to it's vets than help. During this orange admin vets are being used/abused. Fake patriotism gave a $92 million birthday parade. The VA could have used that $ for programs that HELP or vets. Instead it was wasted, blown for a piss poor orange birthday parade.
I have been switched primary care providers at the VA 3 times in the last year so yeah things are “great again” or whatever
Worth noting that the VA is heavily dependent on contractors to supplement the care they provide, and they were not immune to the haphazard hatchet job doge unleashed on federal programs.
They can't privatize the whole thing and funnel money to their insurance company donors if they don't kill the VA first. This is exactly by plan. Set it up to fail so they can have justification for privatizing it.
