Someone recommended that Vets should get vouchers that would allow them to go to any doctor, that would instantly fix the problem.
GOP Rep. Proposes Health Care Vouchers So Vets Can Opt Out of VA Health System
BY: Larry O’Connor
May 22, 2014 1:20 pm
Rep. Andy Harris (R., Md.) is a Navy vet and a medical doctor who spent years at the VA. He has probably forgotten more about health care issues for our veterans than most congressmen will ever know. And he wants vets to have a choice so they can opt out of the government-run bureaucracy and access the private health care system.
This morning I interviewed Harris on WMAL radio in Washington, D.C., and cited my Washington Free Beacon colleague Andrew Stiles’ terrific article exposing how liberal pundits and politicians held the VA health system up as a “huge policy success story, which offers important lessons for future health reform.”
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I’m not letting Shinseki off the hook so easily. He is a 4 star general, he knows how to run a staff, he knows how to compel reports and updates, he knows how to see the status of his command. Complaining that some bureaucracy has blocked his knowing what is going on is his ONLY defense, and that is no defense for a guy who’s supposed to know how to over come that.
And if he cannot overcome that, then he REPORTS it to Congress.
The VA is nothing more than an extended sick call and orderly room for troops who have had active/reserve duty. It’s problems appear to be that its buried under huge layers of bureaucracy. There is no more reason for it not to work than there is for any other non-profit hospital consortium not to work. And LOTS of non-profits hospitals work just fine.
The VA’s problem is bureaucracy, and I’m also betting big on waste, fraud, and abuse.
If you think what’s happening in the VA is bad, you just wait until OBAMA CARE goes full bore. Every one will feel the full power of what this government can do to everyone. That there will be “DEATH PANELS?” You bet. Any one with a health problem that is too old or too young, that would require expensive treatment, will be left to die. The only ones that will get treated for anything, will be those in the ages of 20 to 40 years old. Why because they can still be able to “CONTRIBUTE” to society. You see, it’s only those “CONTRIBUTERS” to society, the useful ones, according to the government, will be allowed to survive to “CONTRIBUTE” their labor.
This could eliminate not only the bloated bureaucracy of the VA, but the giant budget that supports it.
WeMUST also remember that what we see today with VA health care is what we all face tomorrow with Obamacare.
Does anyone remember Obama saying that veterans volunteered for service so, they should pay their own health care? I do and at that time is posted that congress volunteered too.
I don’t blame Shinseki so much as I do the nature of any overgrown bureaucracy. Obama’s guilt lies in his history of broken promises and apathy.
Obamacare is the exact same brand of bureaucracy on steroids. (NOW WITH 30% MORE CRONYISM!!!!)
No, that wouldn't fix the problem. In that situation, you end up with VA medical care operating no differently than Medicare -- which is also a purely socialist single-payer system. Veterans would end up dealing with a doctors that don't accept the VA vouchers because they can't deal with a VA system that limits payments to doctors for medical procedures. Does this sound familiar?
EXACTLY!!!!!!!...in a capitalist free enterprise system, all failing or marginal enterprises are driven out of business.....they self-fix or die...just the opposite of a socialist system where even mediocrity is rewarded
It was someone’s idea to create secret lists. This idea seems to have occurred simultaneously at over 20 VA hospitals. This is not socialism. This was the work of one person. This person needs to be identified.
This country needs a reset button.
Socialism creates waiting lists, but if Shinseki was administrating properly, the list wouldn’t be fraudulent as well
When it happened at one facility it was an outrage.
When it happened at two facilities it became a trend.
It’s happened at many facilities which means it’s policy.
The American people just can’t bring it upon themselves to blame socialism because they like socialist programs which they “think” benefit them.