Why is the VA hospital so bureaucratic? I hate being in this endless loop.

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Because it's a government agency and the one thing the government does well is be inept and inefficient.

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So true

But think of all the unregulated prescription drugs and misdiagnoses to be had at the end of that rainbow.

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Once you get thru all of the red tape. You get to look forward to being treated in a way that you thought was reserved for Hollywood and pow camps.

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Sadly, democrats and republicans alike do not have any solution to this. Just feel bad for my brothers and sisters in the service.

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