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Monica S Mcfeeters's comment,
April 9, 4:38 PM
I may be giving input about the VA hospital at Memphis soon. I'm hoping it will be good. I am a huge supporter of training very smart medical professionals to serve the public and funding their education to do so...Much of the VA was privatized during the Bush and Clinton years using contractors and contract doctors in at least overseas clinics... This lowered the quality of service as retention of both military ranking medical professionals and contractor retention was awful as well…it became a pass through spot looking for a real and better job. . While saving tax payer dollars that then went to fund contractor pockets rather than funding medical, life time medical military commitments , great top of the line on the job training and retirements as well as serious medical education for very bright young people that otherwise wouldn't afford the tab...We didn't get the best deal in the privatization contract.
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