Veterans Mistreated at VA Hospitals

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This is deeply personal, because I'm a disabled veteran. I don't have near the problems that a lot of people who served do, however. I served in relative peace time, when the worst thing I had to encounter was smart-mouthed junior officers who weren't smart enough to spell their own names. Nobody shot at me. I didn't encounter a child and wonder if he was going to blow himself up the way Vietnam veterans did with the guerrilla warfare they had to endure (and a similar thing with religious extremists killing themselves while hoping to take a few members of "the great satan" with them). The VA hospitals treat their patients like dog excrement. I saw one veteran physically removed from the emergency room waiting area because he was sick of sitting there, waiting for eight hours, and let a few profanities fly while asking how much longer he had to wait. He asn't loud (although above a conversational level), threatening, or dangerous...just frustrated. And instead of answering his question, they had the hospital security walk him out of the building. Last week, a friend of mine buried his son, an Iraqi War veteran with depression, PTSD, and alcohol addiction. He took his own life after the VA couldn't find time to help him cope with his issues. (Meanwhile, some jerk politician said that he wouldn't vote for increased funding to treat PTSD to try to stop the 23 suicides by veterans daily because "It would be a waste of money.") Why are criminals and illegal immigrants treated better in this country than the men and women who served in the military?