Posted by Bret4207 on May 30, 2014 at 04:15:58 from (64.19.90.196):
In Reply to: VA posted by hughb on May 29, 2014 at 05:55:26:
I don't know all that much about the specifics of the VA issue, but I am intimately familiar with State and Federal gov't bureaucracies. You aren't going to "fix" it. And the idea of "giving the vets a card for free medical services elsewhere" is just going to give you another Medicare/Medicaid system. You trade one bureaucracy for another. An answer? I don't have a perfect one for this issue because the idea of health care "insurance" is a farce to start with. It's a health care plan, there is no insurance involved really. What we need is either an individual savings plan for every single person that they fund themselves or we might as well just go to single payer. Anything between the 2 now is either being footed by taxpayers or consumers, there is no in between. IMO it's better to have individuals fund their own healthcare and to take responsibility for themselves than to expect their neighboring taxpayers or their employers to fund it. If you have no skin in the game, you are aren't going to care what it costs. Right now we have taxpayers paying for s ex change operations, tattoo removal, vanity surgeries, etc. How is that right?
Our problem is that everyone wants someone else to pay for everything they want. Vets, and by that I mean people wounded in action and not people like me that served in the Cold War or peace time and never saw action, deserve something better than they have now, but we shouldn't expect anything different than Medicare/Medicaid having the Feds administrate it.
As far as the Prez and Congress, they shouldn't have any gov't funded healthcare at all. Not VA, not anything. Let them find their own healthcare just like the rest of us. No more housing stipends either, offer them a bunk in a barracks at 8th and I street, and they can eat at the chow hall or pay for their own meals. That would get rid of a lot of the dead weight in DC.
This post was edited by Bret4207 at 04:19:23 05/30/14.
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