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VA provides healthcare and claims.

Less war equal less injured vets that require lifetime care or benefits.

Claims process will still take forever and healthcare will be sub-par regardless of employee levels.

I’m 100% and still use my employer healthcare over the VA because I have found I can’t get quality care from the VA.

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Just because we’re no longer at war doesn’t mean we don’t have people out there in combat scenarios.
As a veteran, you know this. What I’m talking about from combat field to household is literally that, we have veterans returning from combat deployment, or who had returned from combat deployment where they’re back at their house in less than a week. For my own ex-husband, he left his deployment and was back at his house in less than 24 to 72 hours.
I understand you stated that combat arms do see psychologists post deployment, is it mandatory? Is there a mandatory number of visits that they have to go to the psychologist or psychiatrist for? How many state that they’re not having problems when they could be? How often does it happen that symptoms don’t show up until a few weeks after the deployment return? by combat arms do you mean actual roles within combat recently being open to women? There have been plenty of stories where women who were just driving in convoy had seen combat. I’m sure there are other roles where they were just doing their job, but they ended up in a combat situation.
Were you looking at the actual study that was done by the DAV?

There's no question the veterans system is being utilized to an extent that was never the original intent. But laying people off recklessly is not going to be a good solution. If there was a logical plan to downsize the VA over time, that would make sense, but what's about to happen is going to be ghastly.

The fact that there's 80k jobs that can be removed without closing the VA is telling in and of itself. The system is comically bad and most of us try not to use it, unless we absolutely have to. Whatever 80k less VA workers means, I am fairly certain we can automate a number of functions and do better at this point.

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