The waiting area at the Denver Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Denver. Denver’s VA Medical Center currently serves veterans in the Rocky Mountain region and helps them with the general and more complex issues that they might be having including mental health issues. Once the new VA hospital in Aurora is complete, they are looking to be able to expand their services to even more individuals on an even higher level of care. (Brent Lewis, The Denver Post)
Re: “Colorado ground zero for vets’ health,” July 31 guest commentary.
It would appear that Garry Augustine’s personal stake in the VA issue is coloring his perception. The issue is not about veterans; the VA is using it as a shield to hide behind. Americans rightly love their vets, so any negative information is twisted into an attack on vets. The issue is about bureaucracy and incompetence. In a word, the VA health system should be scaled back to a small fund management group and the actual work left to the private sector, which can do it much better.
Wilton Helm, Evergreen
This letter was published in the Aug. 4 edition.The writer tries to make it sound like there are only two choices: fund VA hospitals or veterans go without health care or receive only sub-standard health care. Just why does the VA have to remain in the hospital construction and health care business?
I’ll agree that the VA Hospital in Aurora should continue to be funded until it is finished. But, in the longer term, Congress should begin looking hard at why VA hospitals are a necessity when there are so many fine hospitals that could treat veterans as well, if not better, than they are currently treated.
Edward L. Lowe, Englewood
This letter was published in the Aug. 4 edition.
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