Sell VA Hospitals to Private Industry

Aside from the Veterans Administration scandal of ineptitude and handling patients and the prosecution of administrators, we need to take a more basic look at government physical facilities.
We should start with the premise that government should never have physical facilities unless they involve security of US citizens. Here are a few of government physical facilities which should be permitted: the Capitol building and is various offices, the White House, all facilities of the military including Air Force, Army, Navy, Marines, and Coast Guard, various laboratories and test sites for weapon development, embassy buildings in foreign countries, and perhaps there may be one or two more.
Note that in the above list, nothing is included which can be supplied from private: commercial sources. For example, offices of the Internal Revenue Service can all be leased from private owners, if that is not now the case. Government ownership of property is a continuing infringement on the rights of citizens. We have continually been moving in the direction of government ownership as we expand the federal government and expand its socialistic concepts, which involve government ownership of all property.
This has not always been the case. During World War II, private industry facilities were converted by the owners to produce war goods, such as Army uniforms, airplanes, tanks and other military vehicles, ships, etc.. There were two exceptions: synthetic rubber and penicillin. With the Japanese controlling Southeast Asia, supply of natural rubber for vehicle tires and other uses was cut off.. Synthetic rubber compositions were developed by university professors, of which Carl Marvel was the leader. They settled on a composition of butadiene and styrene. The product was called Government Rubber Synthetic (GRS) and the government built several plants for its production. Penicillin had also been newly discovered by Alexander Fleming, but there were no facilities available for its production. The government built at least one production plant in Connecticut.
At the close of the war, the government sold off its GRS rubber plants and its penicillin production facilities to private industry; a return to private property rights and a reduction of physical property owned by the federal government.
In the case of the Veterans Administration, the government has a number of Veterans Administration hospitals. These hospitals are not particularly different from privately owned hospitals. The Veterans Administration should sell its hospitals to private industry. In other words, get out of the hospital business, in the same way that the government got out of the GRS rubber business and penicillin business after World War II.
Veterans have a magnitude of health problems, but none of these are particularly different than those handled by privately owned hospitals. It is only a matter of patient quantity. For example, there are many more veterans who have lost limbs from improvised explosive devices (IED's) than normally occur in the general population. But, the technology of treatment is not unknown or unused in private hospital operations.
Veterans with physical or mental disabilities, diagnosed by the branch of service from which they have been released should be given a veterans health card which allows them free private treatment at any hospital for the condition that they have been previously diagnosed.
Simply put, the VA should sell off its hospitals, and any of their other physical facilities and issue health cards to disabled veterans. The VA should act as a controlling body to assure that the private hospitals are doing the proper job in treatment of veterans, and should also concentrate on the other benefits that veterans should receive according to law. This latter has not come up in recent discussions, but I have had a particular difficulty with the VA supplying the proper educational support for my grandson, who was a tank driver in Iraq. The VA was had been so slow on its feet that without my personal financial support my grandson would never have achieved the education which now makes him an integral part of our society.