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should be able to afford private health insurance? On military pay? You don’t think our “heroes” should be taken care of by the country they serve through taxes? The military is paid for by our taxes. Why not “socialize” the military and make it an all volunteer payment system?
received a VA that was the best functioning health care system in the United States — it performed better at providing health care than any private insurance or health care system in the country.
What was the cause of the Walter Reed scandal? A lot of it has to do with the intensely negative effects of a privatization of services at Walter Reed. They were taken over by a company run by a former Halliburton official. The result is that a lot of seasoned staff left. Socialized medicine isn’t the problem; privatization is the problem.
And, about that Congressional oversight? Please remind me which party controlled Congress until two months ago. A party that strongly favors socialized medicine? I didn’t think so.
People who don’t believe in government do a bad job of running it.
Let’s see, assuming there were VA hospitals after WW I, and certainly after WW II, that means that the VA always was under the Dems’ control until the Repubs swept the gov. in 2000.
Except for a couple of years in the early 50s, the Dems controlled congress or the White House and often both.
Face it. the VA has been a mess forever. It is run by a board of directors who happen to be members of Congress, plus a president, cabinet officer and thousands of bureaucrats and special interest groups.
It is government-owned and run and it is a failure.
This is not about getting better care for Vets. Of course we all want that. This thread is about the failure of politicians and bureaucrats to provide decent health care despite an outrageously expensive budget.
To blame this scandal on outsourcing to private contractors is to buy into the socialists’ big lies, which their telling in defense of bungling bureaucrats and negligent politicians.
Have you asked Ken Salazar where he’s been the last two years, Diane DeGette, Wayne Allard, Tom Tancredo, Marlyn Musgrave, Hefly?
They’ve been so busy fighting for pork for the new VA hospital that they’ve ignored the nuts and bolts.
I blame the members of Congress, both parties, the Pentagon and the president.
If the politicians would get out of the way and let somebody who knows how to contract with private providers, the Vets would get much better care from private hospitals, not-for-profit and investor owned. The best hospitals in town are run by HCA, in case you didn’t know.