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Great comment, idiot. If something isn't working right you just "abolish it". Let me guess, you're a right wing conservative tool. I work at and receive care at the VA, and while it has it's drawbacks I would hate to try to find the same level of care anywhere else without being completely bankrupted. Suicide rates are complex. They have something to do with the bureaucracy as you seem to be trying to indicate, but much more to do with VA being underfunded by a federal government that wants to deny the reality that war causes permanent damage to human beings. This is also a government that closes VA hospitals, and shuts down funding for veterans at the exact instant it is sending young men into battle.