Delaware Vets Speak Out Against O’Donnell’s Privatization of Vet Benefits Scheme
Her off hand remarks are so screwy that we tend to forget that her politics are freaking insane.
“The idea of privatizing veterans’ health care is simply wrong,” said Col. Richard L. Klass, USAF (retired), president of VETPAC. “It would threaten the ground breaking research being done in the Department of Veterans Affairs on a host of veteran health care issues from prosthetics to traumatic brain injury to retinal damage. And it would weaken the opportunities for bonding between wounded warriors, a key component in their rehabilitation.”
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If elected, though, she will fit right in with the anti-Veterans benefits party’s other members.
Somehow the VA is a good thing. How many of you clueless libs would go to a VA hospital for any kind of treatment? None.
Full private benefits are a good answer to the real needs of Veterans. Some so called Veteran leaders are like the poverty pimps in the black community. Gimme gimme gimme.
The research he speaks of is being done by non VA personnel, so get with it Colonel.
Full private benefits are a good answer to the real needs of Veterans.
Veterans, and everybody else, already has full private benefits, defined as: all the health care you can afford to pay for. Isn’t that the Republican health care plan?
AKN (you got the nothing part correct) – I would go to a VA hospital and so would other vets. In fact, I have gone and received treatment before I got a job that provided me with health benefits.
AKN, I agree with MJ. As a veteran I would not hesitate to visit the VA hospital for care in time of need. Today my income is such that a)I can afford good healthcare and b)my VA benefits are restricted. Should that ever change the VA will be there to take care of me so long as privatization does not get in the way and kill the system.
As most of you know I am a totally disabled vet, and the VA is my health care.
The VA has had it issues, but it is the best system in the US. The focus is on patient care.
In all of the discussions about health care reform and the opposition to it, you never hear about patient care. You hear about doctor and insurance company profit.
People do not realize how broke our system actually is. Insurance companies add no value to our system, and them not covering high risk and chronically ill is simply pushing the cost to the taxpayers.
So why should we let insurance companies cherry pick the profitable patients and shift the cost of the chronically ill like me to the taxpayers? So in reality the taxpayers are subsidizing insurance company profits.
The VA is awesome care. And it is the most scrutinized care in the country. Dr. Bradley would not happen at the VA, not to that extent.
If anyone is interested, sincerely interested in the VA. I will expand, but trust me, eliminating the profit incentive from medicine actually improves patient care.
BTW, most veterans and veterans groups oppose vouchers. The veterans that want it are the ones who want the VA to cover the donut hole in medicare.
Let me put in perspective. The VA has offered to send me locally and pay for private care, and I tried it once and stopped. I would rather deal with RN’s and other qualified people, than the unqualified nursing aide trainees that private doctors hire.
A while back the VA was floating the notion of buying out veterans to remove them from the system. I thought about it and if the VA offered me 2 million I would not accept it. I have serious chronic problems and that would not cover me in the private system. Considering I am 43 that would get eaten up real quick
Veterans have put their lives on the line for this country. That healthcare, especially healthcare specifically for a soldier’s unique needs, might become unaffordable to them is unconscionable.
Yeah, that’s where we should cut big government costs. Because privatized healthcare does such a superior job.