As follows from the above statistics, the Veteran’s Health Administration received an impressive amount of state budget money. This has led to an efficient and rapid response to the COVID-19 epidemic and has allowed funds to be focused in such a way as to obtain as many vaccines as possible in the shortest possible time. The clear priority of this association in the perception of administrative managers is obvious, which gives it the opportunity to use its expanded capabilities for more altruistic purposes.
As can be seen from a study on comparative analysis of statistical data on the spread of COVID, the Veteran Health Administration is extremely reluctant to provide public viewing of the data they collected about the sick. The Administration is restricting access to the data that is effectively predicting COVID-related mortality attained from the combination of age, sex, and comorbidity factors (King et al., 2022). This data policy seems to be segregational, which is ethically unacceptable, especially given the financial advantage of this association relative to many other more vulnerable segments of the population. The pandemic data collected by the Association has the potential to be of greater value and reliability due to the fact that they were collected with sufficiently large funding. Indeed, the actions taken by the Association regarding the receipt of vaccines are impressive, but the recommended amendment would be the requirement to open access to the collected pandemic statistics.
The Administration has, in fact, been receiving more attention from the health authorities for several years now. This led to a natural decrease in mortality among this social group and made it possible to exceed expectations for survival during the pandemic. There is indeed a lot of attention being paid to making healthcare services for veterans a multi-layered and inter-connected system. Virtual screening has allowed this social group to have more frequent and regular medical check-ups. However, having these resources, the Administration could pay attention to other segments of the population, in particular, economically disadvantaged citizens.
This paper demonstrates a consistent analysis of the policies applied by The Veterans Health Administration. Special attention is paid to homeless veterans, for whom measures should be taken to improve the overall quality of life. The concept applied by healthcare organizations to veterans is strictly patient-centered, focusing on the individual needs of veterans and using a large budgetary resource for this. With a long history, the Veterans Health Administration has the power and the ability to truly eradicate the problem of veterans not being able to get qualified care. Suggested solutions such as substantial drug benefits and access to treatment, with a particular focus on older people and LGBTQ+ people. A recommendation under this set of decisions could be a call for open access to COVID statistics that could contribute to the fight against the pandemic.
The work establishes the stakeholders and beneficiaries of these decisions, indicating that all necessary resources should be directed to the main beneficiaries, that is, directly to veterans. This is the main unifying motivation of stakeholders, which allows one to speak about the guaranteed implementation of the short-term and long-term tasks set by the organization. In general, it can be said that public health provides veterans with a hermetic system in which they are guaranteed to receive assistance. Despite this, the ethical implications of a clear preference for budget allocation in favor of veterans seem problematic, given the multiple social upheavals brought about by the pandemic.
Reference
King Jr., J. T., Yoon, J. S., Bredi, Z. M., Habboushe, J. P., Walker, G. A., Rentsch, C. T., Tate, J. P., Kashnyap, N. M., Hintz, R. C., Chopra, A. P., & Justice, A. C. (2022). Accuracy of the Veterans Health Administration COVID-19 (VACO) Index for predicting short-term mortality among 1307 US academic medical centre inpatients and 427 224 US Medicare patients. Epidemiology & Community Health, 76(3), 254-260.