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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social

The VA is down 600 doctors and about 1,900 nurses so far this year, the first time the agency has seen net losses in years.

At several facilities, more than a third of the positions for doctors are unfilled.

Amid concerns about the stability of the agency, records show nearly 40% of the doctors offered jobs at the VA from January through March of this year turned them down — quadruple the rate of rejectio...

Veterans’ Care at Risk Under Trump as Hundreds of Doctors and Nurses Reject Working at VA Hospitals

Amid concerns about the stability of the agency, records show nearly 40% of the doctors offered jobs at the VA from January through March of this year turned them down — quadruple the rate of rejectio...

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  6. omgpodcast22.bsky.social profile picture

    omgpodcast22 @omgpodcast22.bsky.social

    Our Veterans deserve THE BEST CARE MONEY CAN BUY! They not only earned that right but were promised it as well.

    The medical providers caring for our Veterans deserve COMPLETE AND TOTAL SUPPORT IN THEIR ENDEAVORS!

    Struggling before.... now decimated by one cumguzzling thundercunt who never served.

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    John Grunder @jgrunder.bsky.social

    The Republican's plan from the beginning... withdraw support for the veterans they sent to one of their many useless wars... Trump thinks veterans are all losers because they served their country without profit... 🤨

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  20. starofwesttx.bsky.social profile picture

    Lo.ve. @starofwesttx.bsky.social

    Why would anyone qualified want to work for this regime with the thought of job loss could happen at any moment with a mass email.

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  21. lab70.bsky.social profile picture

    @lab70.bsky.social

    As a retired VA nurse, the VA had come so far to improve veterans care in the 30 yrs I worked there but from what I hear from friends still there morale has never been this low and as hard as they try to provide quality care it’s becoming increasingly difficult

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    Republicans=Nazis @trumpisnazi.bsky.social

    Liberals should socialize their own healthcare system now. Buy liberal doctors, nurses. Reject any patient with ties to the Republican Party. We liberals can all drop our heath insurance in mass, then use some of that money to socialize a healthcare system by us/for us.

    RFK jr can go to hell

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  29. tripowkow.bsky.social profile picture

    @tripowkow.bsky.social

    My father was a chief of physical medicine at VA hospitals for his entire career. He loved the VA and lived in a VA nursing center until his death. He is spinning in his grave with what is happening to the VA.

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  30. foreverbluelady.bsky.social profile picture

    Nursing Prof @foreverbluelady.bsky.social

    Forced instability leading to agency “failure”—> private sector (equity firms with stockholders) steps in to “save” it. Oh yeah and make huge profits which aren’t reinvested in the VA

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    Kenna @1958go.bsky.social

    My doctor and I were talking about the cuts to doctors at the VA . She thought they needed to cut back. I disagreed as the Mother of three veterans. So I received a letter from her the other day that she will be closing her office because she accepted a job at the VA. 🙄

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  34. mgmoody42.bsky.social profile picture

    @mgmoody42.bsky.social

    This is how the conservatives have always wanted to support the American veterans of war. It goes back as far as the War of Independence.

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    Carrie @carriekyte.bsky.social

    My husband with Parkinson’s has needs outside what Medicare approves. Under Trump, they’re not quick to deliver the pricier approved equipment and have the feeling they hope our veterans with serious issues will die in the meantime.

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  36. moldavitemanatee.bsky.social profile picture

    vite @moldavitemanatee.bsky.social

    It makes me so angry!!! The VA is a place any healthcare worker should be proud to work at! I never wanted to be a nurse anywhere else! I love working with the veteran population, and their specialized needs can't be as effectively taken care of in the private sector! VA medical centers are (1/

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    Rajarooni @jat1955.bsky.social

    As a Veteran I've seen the services decline for a decade. Which wasn't good to begin with. Still I'm thankful for what I get. It's a big ship to turn around.

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