[Jesse]

"It's also changing the deal after one party has performed."

You forget, if you or I do this, it's fraud and we go to jail. If the government does it, it is fiscal responsibility.

Anyway, the VA hospital system is an expensive anachronism and should be closed down. Veterans should get a voucher and get their own insurance and seek health care in the private sector. Service connected vets vouchers would be higher and high risk vets would go into a high risk pool that all insurance companies who want to sell health insurance to veterans would have to participate in.

Oh, I know it will never happen. But the solutions which makes the most sense when it comes to socialistic, paternalistic government job programs like the VA system or federal education system (ie, close them down)will never happen because they are a source of votes and political power for politicians.

[185JHP]

Oh, I agree. The VA should be shut down and veterans get free medical care for life from the private medical sector. It is vile that bums and deviates get first-class free care on demand and vets don't. But until we shut down the VA, it should be available to all. FReegards