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Originally Posted by Axeman
Yes, that is what I am telling you. They are going to the DOD platform to speed up the process in fact. You have left the realm of reasonable expectations and timelines if you think they can just just take an out of the box platform and have it running already.
If these things you mentioned and he promised are not done or mostly done by Nov 2020, you got a gripe. But to be up in arms and dismissing progress in July 2017, 6 months in, is just absurd and unrealistic.
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I disagree. At the end of the day the VA is nothing more than a healthcare system. It's one of tens of thousands of healthcare companies - all of which have their own records systems. Every doctor, specialist, healthcare company, and hospital all use something similar. Surely they can find something that someone is already using, and modify it to work for them.
And it's not "six months in". This is a program started under Obama in 2015. And the VA will need another two years to finish it. Four years and god only knows how much money they will spent so they can create software that... Is already being used around the country by every doctor, hospital, and healthcare system, etc.
But that's not even the point. The point is Trump and his team are trying to put a positive spin on the VA when in fact they've done nothing. This was a pretty big part of his campaign, wasn't it? All they did was put someone new in charge, fired some people, and continued doing exactly what was being done before and said "Okay, problem solved". Meanwhile we still have vets waiting to get their appointments.