Resignations of this sort are never pleasant. They are certainly not something I take any delight in – and this one is made even more difficult by the fact that General Shinseki has served his country for decades with great valor. While I believe this decision was warranted, we mustn’t make the mistake of missing the forest for the trees by believing a few surface-level changes will be sufficient to remedy what is a thoroughly systemic problem. The Veterans Affairs Department is broken at nearly every level and must be fundamentally overhauled so that the men and women who are too often broken by the sacrifices they made on the battlefield may receive care befitting American heroes. We would also be well-advised to consider how much trust we have in the federal government to attempt to oversee healthcare for the country’s entire population when it has so utterly failed to care for the roughly 21 million veterans served by the VA. I fear these issues may only be a microcosm of what is to come.
Posted on: Fri, 30 May 2014 21:00:01 +0000
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