either he already ate or doesn;t know how to operate a knife and fork on his own...
Because running a fork and knife is for the "Help"....
Posted on 04/08/2015 8:27:11 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
While Sen. Rand Paul (R., Ky.) was formally launching his 2016 presidential campaign Tuesday, still-not-a-candidate Jeb Bush was in Colorado, where he called for privatizing some parts of veterans’ health care.
Mr. Bush, sitting in front of an untouched breakfast at an IHOP in Colorado Springs, told a group of veterans that he favors transferring some elements of veterans’ care to private hospitals from government-run Veterans Affairs facilities.
“This is where I think empowering people with the equivalent of a voucher that gives you the same economic benefit of receiving care inside of a clinic or a hospital,” Mr. Bush said in a video of the public event recorded by the Democratic firm American Bridge. “If you had a chance to go to another place where the money followed the patient, it would give the veterans — you wouldn’t have these kind of hostile reactions, my job is protected for life, don’t mess with it.”
Last month in New Hampshire, Mr. Bush voiced support for 2014 legislation that allows veterans to see doctors outside the VA system if they experience long wait times or live more than 40 miles from the closest VA hospital....
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Jen Bush should call someone to extract his head from his rectum
That’s gonna be one damn big voucher.
Save your money, Jeb.
Make this guy go away, PLEASE!
I actually think there is some merit to this. I know I will get crucified for saying this. I am not a Jeb Bush follower, and I do use the VA as well.
Doing that would create a lot of jobs for his favorite group of non Americans.
You know Private companies will actively look for cheap labor to fill these
jobs. I think we all know who these private companies will hire.
Do you speak Spainish?
If not, you should learn. As these Private Companies will hire cheap labor
so they can maximize profits.
Yea, either that or he will say, “Oh, that! That was just for the election. That’s so yesterday, now!”
either he already ate or doesn;t know how to operate a knife and fork on his own...
Because running a fork and knife is for the "Help"....
[Mr. Bush, sitting in front of an untouched breakfast at an IHOP in Colorado Springs]
What a reporter!
A voucher is one thing, my fear is that it will mean that retired military will be on par with welfare recipients for health care.
Let’s see, of all the completely inefficient, screwed-up, hopelessly incompetent government departments (and that includes most of them) he wants to privatize veteran’s care? The Social Security administration spends over 2 billion a year just to hand out benefits. Want to bet there are numerous private companies that would take the job for a billion, improve the service AND make a profit?
I do not speak Spanish.
Why do I say what I am saying about the VA?
I was a submarine officer who served no combat role. I began having seizures about 1 year before I resigned. The military gave me 10% disability. Now I get full benefits from the VA. I was even assigned a primary care physician. If for some reason I had no insurance, I can go there and get what I need done, and I will never get a bill.
I will never do this, but that is not my point. I do not believe someone who had a service record such as mine should get lifetime VA for everything. I really believe I should only get epilepsy and neurological treatment at the most, and I believe a voucher can handle that. And let the VA’s neurologist focus more on the veterans who have PTSD.
There are many reasons to object to the candidacy of Bush the Lesser, from resisting the rise of dynastic politics to his positions on immigration, but this is not one of them.
Why anyone thinks that a veterans-only analogue of the British NHS is a good thing for our vets (or a good idea at all) is a mystery to me. Veterans should be given d*mned good insurance, with reimbursement rates set so that any medical facility that isn’t doing boutique medicine only would be a fool not to take it, and VA-run facilities should be highly specialized facilities that deal specifically, and only, with medical and psychological issues that are specific to veterans (combat injuries, PTSD, survivor guilt for not seeing combat,. . .). Everything else should be handled by private (and general purpose public) health care providers.
I have a Vet friend who is having back surgery next week in a non-VA hospital. It was approved by the VA.
Hey, that’s MY idea.
Wait until these private companies start bringing in Doctors from Nigeria
and Barbadosl to maximize profits.
With the right leadership, the VA can be turned around.
Bush wants to take the easy way out.
“still-not-a-candidate Jeb Bush”
And let’s keep it that way.
If the GOP has any real desire to finally win back the WH, they’ll forget a ‘George III’: John Elliot Bush.
And I don’t care what blandishments & promises he throws out.
Cruz, Walker ... there are too many good choices out there to settle for another lieberal like Jeb.
The V.A. should be abolished. Veterans who need health care should be given CASH.
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