Medical Malpractice

Is there a movement among military cons to remove VA hospitals in exchange for a private insurance allowance?

Then again it might be difficult to find a private insurance company that will cover combat wounds but that's probably only because of too much government interference right now. The government needs to step aside and let the free market handle this. andy: As I said the government would pay you to seek your own private insurance. Are you saying that cons prefer government care to trying to find a decent private company who won't drop them?

Public Comments

1. It wouldn't surprise me given the failure that the government run VA hospitals have been.
2. No, that was one of Obama's many dumb ideas. Nobody liked it but him. And he thought military people were selfish for expecting the government to pay health care.
3. Your stupid then again, with your screen name it's not surprising. Part of being wounded in the military is the government responsibility to treat that injury for life.
4. No. Veterans are happy with their health system. Conservatives accidentally confuse (or purposely conflate for political reasons) military hospitals (where the recent quality scandals occurred) with the VA. They are separate systems. "Technology has transformed the VA. Veterans' hospitals used to be a byword for second-rate care or worse. Now, thanks to technology, they're national leaders in efficiency and quality." *http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2006/05/15/8376846/index.htm {"The care is second to none," says Tom Bock, national commander of the American Legion, the nation's largest veterans' organization.} * {The seamless integration of science, information, and compassion is the dream of modern health care. Scenes like these are not fantasies, however, but daily realities at the Veterans Health Administration, the federal agency that is the most wired and cost-effective health system in the land.}* Sigh. Why do we allow conservatives and private insurers (who skim profits from health care dollars) to prevent all Americans from getting the best health care in the land? {For a $1.9 trillion industry (16 percent of GDP), medicine [private sector] remains stubbornly backward.}* {Today the VA health system - which provides lifetime medical care to veterans with service-related disabilities, as well as to low-income and other qualifying vets and their families - has turned that reputation around. The nation's largest health network, with 1,300 hospitals, community clinics, and other facilities, the VA beats most other medical providers on dozens of "quality indicators," such as administering regular cancer screenings or prescribing beta-blockers to heart-attack survivors.}*
5. VA hospitals have been BOUGHT and PAID FOR. The PONZI scheme is in place. The same thing with SOCIAL SECURITY. I've paid into it... as I have UNEMPLOYMENT all my adult working life. Social Programs - which cover people on the front end with money not yet in the system (sorta like these "stimulus" spending) - are a bad idea... because they are funded with moneys - coming from different people than are getting the benefits.
6. VA hospitals are a national embarrassment, and a forwarning of what government healthcare would be. Our wounded soldiers deserve access to our best hospitals.
7. I hope so they would get better care in the private sector and the government should pay for it we owe them the best care!
8. Your premise is, once again, seriously flawed. National Defense is one of the few things the Constitution requires the Federal Government to handle. Yet, it is the one area Liberal Progressives want to cut. Conservatives believe that since the Constitution requires the Federal Government to raise, maintain and conduct operations with a military, the Federal Government bears responsiblity for any injuries that military personnel suffer as a result. *
9. Too funny. The republican commentator Bill Kristol said that the best run heath care in this country is the Veterans Administration. If the government were out of the business of monitoring the "free market" health care sector, we would see MORE cases of fraud and abuse of the American people. The supposed medicines that they flood the market with would kill the people. People like Rick Scott would bankrupt families for profit. How naive...
10. ideogenetic,,,,, You must be joking, if you want to believe some far out agenda pushed article about the VA, go ahead. I tried using the VA for a torn ACL, after two years the doctor there told me my best bet would be to get insurance and get it fixed on my own. My insurance company picked me up and covered a military injury, so I don't understand all the false news about preexisting conditions. My aunt has leukemia and had to pick up new insurance after she moved, they won't touch her for one year, then they will cover her leukemia, until that one year, they will still cover everything else. VA sucks, because the govt. doesn't pick up the tab so outside doctors like specialty doctors will keep putting you off for years. Preexisting conditions keeping you from getting insurance at all is another Obama lie. Most will cover your preexisting condition after a time period, and will still give you insurance until then.