Oh these right wingers are fuking hilarious. You know most have never been in the military. I was.
The privatize healthcare experiment has so far been a disaster. Here, check this out:
The VA Doesn’t Need to Be Privatized, and Our Vets Know It
Trump bases his stance on the VA mostly on a
2014 scandal about backlogs for patient care and falsifications of waiting periods, which led to the
dismissal of several top officials. But as
The Fiscal Times’ Rob Garver
explained, the VA’s new leadership has already acted to reform the system and change the agency’s culture. Pending claims are way down, virtually all VA facilities extend same-day access to care and performance
exceeds the private sector by nearly every measure.
a pilot program gave veterans a Choice Card to use at private facilities if their local VA hospital is more than 40 miles away, or if the wait time is over 30 days. This theoretically ensures that no veteran has to wait for or be inconvenienced by seeking medical care.
This has led to a secondary waitlist for those seeking difficult-to-access private care, along with numerous billing errors and questions of eligibility. There was also no setup for integrating care between VA and non-VA providers, which meant veterans skipping between the two could get duplicative or substandard care. While some have predictably
used this to label the VA as incompetent, it says more about the hurdles to delivering a public/private hybrid.
Republicans have responded by advocating for a
permanent Choice Card, allowing veterans to go to anywhere they want (oddly, they haven’t offered the same kind of single-payer card for the nation’s other 300 million-odd citizens to present at any medical facility). That mirrors the Trump plan of a “public/private option.” But that would further strain a hobbled scheme private contractors couldn’t figure out for a much smaller universe of patients.
It would also double the costs of the current VA.
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Republicans don't "fix" things. They steal from the American people. Did they "fix" the Middle East?Have they "fixed" healthcare? Did they "fix" car companies? Did they "fix" the ruined economy after Bush?
What about taxes? Did they "fix" taxes? For billionaires. For the rest of the country the cost will be at least a couple of trillion.
Don't expect anything the GOP "fixes" to ever work again.