Retired pay must rise to control costs!
Put a sock in it Captain McCain.
“Retired pay must rise to control costs!
Put a sock in it Captain McCain.”
That makes no sense, you raise the pay, and you get more resources competing for the same more or less finite supply.
You want to control costs abolish high barriers to entry and restrictions on practices to allow for more diversity and thus competition.
In the case of military vets allowing more of them control over their resources in the private market will improve their service time.
But ultimately your looking at a supply & demand problem. The Goverment by agreeing to pay for all of their healthcare needs has eliminated most all need to control demand by the only party that can control demand.
As this is of course untenable in any market, with no direct monetary constraints to control demand, demand from the users goes thou the roof while the cost of that demand are pushed upon the Goverment.
Because the Goverment can’t possibly cover this ever growing costs, invariably the users will begin to feel them costs both in deterring quality of service and waits, until such time that those costs control their demand.
Unfortunately in healthcare that means people have no option in life but to die. (They can’t pay more for faster more diversify service.)
The irony is that we put our military veterans into this abusive situation by giving them “benefits” only in the form of the Goverment run & controlled system instead of simply higher pay or lump-sum.