U.S. servicemembers who sustain injuries while putting their lives on the line for our country deserve generous treatment from the government. No veteran with a legitimate service-related injury should ever struggle to get care.At the same time, hundreds of thousands of people are gaming the Veterans Affairs system to extract payments for health issues that have nothing to do with their service. Such behavior has created a backlog and made it harder for other veterans to receive compensation they deserve. It’s also fiscally unsustainable...
This is why universal socialized medicine will never work in the United States. The VA is as good a public healthcare system as we can do. It has every advantage, including unfailing political support because almost every American backs the idea that our combat veterans deserve to have their health taken care of after their time of service.
Even so, we still can't do it. Maybe other countries can; we can't. This is as good as it gets, and it's 'the hardest to reform.'
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Veteranos Administratio delende est.
Convert the VA's current and all putative future budgets to vouchers for veterans with which they can seek out care at the doctor's offices, clinics, prompt care facilities, hospitals of their choice on the schedules that suit the veterans.
The VA medical staff that are specialized in the traumas unique to veterans won't have trouble finding work on the economy. Housing support can be moved to HUD.
Eric Hines
To the extent it works at all, it's because the beneficiaries have to front-load their contribution. They can't go bare then agree to start paying for benefits late in life after their health has become unusually expensive to maintain. That leaves only the need for the government to live up to its own end of the bargain, and to police fraud effectively.
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