The privatization of the VA medical system is totally unacceptable. My own experiences with private doctors , when it comes to illnesses that arise from service, is they have no knowledge of the military environment. If you want to talk choice, then make it so. Forcing Veterans to go private is a profiteering idea. More money into the hands of the those who have fed on the misery of others. The VA has long been on the vanguard of Military Medicine and much of this research will be lost once going private. In the civilian medical world there is no room for curing, only for treating.