Universal healthcare will render the VA healthcare redundant. A soldier will have access to healthcare before deployment and after deployment, whether they got fucked up in a horrible situation or came back safe.
I'll add: it feels like the veterans are begging the VA when they should have that basic human right by default.
Ah, so that's why wholesale prices are so much higher than retail. Diseconomies of scale.
And if you can't make it work in America, the country with the most screwed up and corrupt healthcare in the world[*], how could you expect to make it work anywhere?
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[*] It's a big claim, but I don't know how else you refer to a country that spends twice as much on healthcare per capita than any other country, but comes in 54th for life expectancy, while being the main cause of bankruptcies.
If you can't make the VA model work in America, that's good evidence that a bigger model would suffer the same, but bigger problems.