1. VA care and benefits are earned by honorable services rendered via enlistment contract, not given. Socialist care is given to everyone in a geopolitical area. 2. Veterans have the choice to not use VA care. Socialists don’t. 3. The VA discriminates in the levels of care it gives. Care levels are decided by many factors including levels of disability, economic status, age, eras, and theaters of service. Socialist care is one and all. 4. The VA can send veterans to private care. In socialist care if they don’t provide it, you are out of luck. 5. The VA doesn’t manufacture its own drugs or medical equipment. Socialist care does. 6. Although rare, VA medical care can be revoked. Socialist care can’t refuse the most abusive user.
Although the VA has many of the negative aspects of Socialized care….(decisions made by bureaucrats not doctors, weeks and month long waits, chronic troublemakers slowing the system with frivolous care requests, years of appeals, little personal connection with doctors…) it’s not socialized care. No, I’m not a doctor, I’m a former US Marine who’s worked around the VA medical system and has seen all of the above firsthand.
Sorry for the typos.... a 16 hour day doesnt promote clear editing.
I have never heard of anyone who thought VA benefits are socialist. I can’t imagine thinking that. I thought it was criminal that we didn’t pay benefits to Filipino soldiers who fought in the U.S. services, and were promised the benefits.
Thanks for setting that straight. Semper Fi, Marine.
In the military, if you screw up there is a possibility that you may pay for your mistake with your life. If politicians were willing to extend these same workplace rules to federal bureaucrats, then I would be more than willing to pay for their healthcare with my tax dolloars.
Well done!
Hard to argue with those points.
I can see why they refuse to print it.
The VA is corrupt and it hides behind veterans.
I could care less if they crash and burn.They are not socialist,it is just the people who work there,tend to be usually pretty far to the left.
Big on people respecting them,not so much on respecting those who serve.
BTTT
Maybe you can tell me why we still have a separate medical system for veterans. Why not just give them Tricare and let them seek treatment where they choose instead of commuting to a VA facility somewhere?
Sorry for post #31 folks.
No coffee.