What Vets Deserve: A Better VA

What’s been happening at Veterans Affairs over the years is quite troubling (“Save the VA From Itself,” Betsy McCaughey, Post Opinion, April 4).

Millions of veterans depend on the VA for their health care. Former VA Secretary David Shulkin was fired because he wasn’t getting the job done.

President Trump selected doctor and admiral Ronny Jackson as the new VA secretary. I hope he turns the VA into a welloiled machine that can truly help veterans in need of better care. I’m 69 and a Vietnam-era veteran, and I’m very concerned.

The problems with the VA boil down to putting politics and bureaucracy over the proper care of our veterans. They gave their all to protect what we hold most dear. They deserve better. Frederick Bedell Glen Oaks Village

I have received great VA health care, both in Denver as well as southwest Florida.

I suspect the Trump administration is trying to highlight the deficien- cies of the VA system to prove that no public health-care system can work. It can.

We need to fix any shortfalls but resist the push to privatization. Allen Murphy Fort Myers, Fla.

As a disabled veteran since 1970, I’ve had to deal with the VA. The problems McCaughey writes about are exactly true. We veterans are frustrated with the system. Bob Smith Lake Grove