Posted on 05/19/2014 9:05:17 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Government run healthcare.
Someone on another thread (sorry - I can’t recall whom) suggested veteran’s vouchers for use in the free market.
The idea has legs, but soebarkah hates capitalism wherever he finds it, and particularly in the United States. Combined with his hatred of the military and veterans, it’s a no go.
And don’t even think of getting any relief from our so-called conservative Hose...I mean, uh, House.
I thought 0 HAD to sign the sequestration bill to avoid an economic crisis/collapse. (/s)
Besides that, wasn't the VA omitted from the budget cuts? Here's a little snippet from WaComPost....
One federal department stands conspicuously protected from the automatic budget cuts falling across the government: the Department of Veterans Affairs with its 300,000 employees and $140 billion budget, a mammoth agency second in size only to the Defense Department.
The exemption, carved out in the legislation establishing the cuts, reflected rare bipartisan agreement in Washington that the VA should be spared the threatened budget turmoil.
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/va-dodges-budget-cuts-but-veterans-will-still-feel-effects-of-the-sequester/2013/03/08/f5266034-8527-11e2-98a3-b3db6b9ac586_story.html
The VA spent a LOT Of money on facility improvements like landscaping, which, btw, vets could not care any less about
So that argument is flat all around
100 dead and counting...........................
How many people will link the VA waiting lists and denial of care to the horrors that await when the government is in charge of ALL healthcare?
I’ve been told by Albuquerque residents that Alb VA hospital is part of the Phoenix VA Medical Region, so no surprise that it’s all the facilities in the management area.
The press is trying very hard to give the impression that “Phoenix” only refers to a single facility.
“Bush’s fault!
“The Obama administration received clear notice more than five years ago that VA medical facilities were reporting inaccurate waiting times and experiencing scheduling failures that threatened to deny veterans timely health care — problems that have turned into a growing scandal.
Veterans Affairs officials warned the Obama-Biden transition team in the weeks after the 2008 presidential election that the department shouldn’t trust the wait times that its facilities were reporting.”
Read more: http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/may/18/obama-warned-about-va-wait-time-problems-during-20/#ixzz32BWi0cDh
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