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Despite a $50 billion budget and 220,000 employees, the Department of Veterans' Affairs gets hardly any public attention. A decade ago, a Senate aide famously compared visiting the department to Jules Verne's "Journey to the Centre of the Earth". Now it seems that another group of explorers has discovered the department: old people needing prescription drugs. The department, known just about everywhere as the VA, oversees compensation programmes for retired servicemen and women. It has long been one of the best protected fiefs in Washington: ex-servicemen's lobbies are extremely powerful and few politicians want tobeseen cutting support for men who have served in war. Yet the department now offers a good example of how a problem can move around the federal government-in this case from the failing Medicare system, the health-insurance programme for all elderly Americans, to the more sprightly VA system.
机译:尽管有500亿美元的预算和220,000名员工,退伍军人事务部几乎没有受到公众的关注。十年前,参议院一名助手将访问该部门与朱尔斯·凡尔纳的《地球中心之旅》进行了著名的比较。现在看来,另一组探险家发现了这个部门:需要处方药的老年人。该部门几乎到处都称为VA,负责监督退休军人和女性的补偿计划。长期以来,它一直是华盛顿受到最好保护的封地之一:前军人的大厅非常强大,很少有政治家希望对正在战争中服役的人减少支持。然而,该部门现在提供了一个很好的例子,说明问题如何在联邦政府范围内解决-在这种情况下,从失效的医疗保险制度,针对所有美国老年人的健康保险计划,到更为明朗的弗吉尼亚州制度。

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