http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MaryKatharineHam/2007/03/09/veterans_on_va_get_the_politics_outta_the_system
I just found this one: A bunch of Vets at a bar discussing this...
BTW..Bah, I don't know if you ever watch the Saturday finance shows on Fox, but the one with David Asman this morning had a great debate about how this Walter Reed problem could be indicative of what ALL of our health care would be if it was turned into universal health care.
It was a spirited debate..and for once, I paid a lot of attention.
It's too beautiful here today to watch much tv at all so I didn't see that discussion, but I personally think it need to be repeated over and over that the government, even with the best intenions, is not an efficient means of delivering certain services, maybe most.
And Hillary! Care would be even worse. It would not be long before it went broke and they would have to decide who got care and who did not. As far as I know, the VA has not yet taken to telling old vets to just go home and die. They certainly took care of my father until the very end through a long and difficult illness.
Have you heard the latest idea? They are saying that the elderly are costing too much money with all of the chronic diseases they develop and this can all be changed if they will just adopt "healthier" lifestyles. I have news for them. Very few elderly escape one chronic illness or another, no matter how they live their lives. So what are they planning to do...monitor everyone's "life style" and if you were a good little dobee, you get treatment, and if you weren't, you don't.
So the whole idea will be that everyone "deserves" health care but there have to be exceptions due to costs. Oh, I could go on and on.