from TSO<\/a>) is on veterans’ healthcare. The complaints are systemic of a large government bureaucracies running healthcare. Long waits between visits, difficulty in getting adequate diagnosis in a timely manner. Of course, what the panelists missed is that it’s always the same – their solutions are always more money.<\/p>\nCost to veterans and military members went on the rise in 1992 when Congress mandated higher co-pays for veterans and active duty soldiers who didn’t use the military system and instead used CHAMPUS (usually because of geographic location). Then in 1993 military retirees were forced off of the military and into Social Security at the age of 65. President Bush reinstated care for retirees, but the co-pays have remained.<\/p>\n
The most applause from the audience were calls for free government healthcare for all Americans avoiding the fact that the entire problem with the military system is the fact that it’s a bureaucracy run by politicians and administrators instead of a private system managed by real doctors.<\/p>\n
One of the panelists, Eli Wright, claimed that he couldn’t get treatment because Walter Reed only treats combat casualties. That’s complete horseshit – I had my gall bladder removed there just a few years ago – I had a private recovery room. They treated me for pneumonia just a few weeks with the usual long wait – but the guy claimed he was on active duty and they wouldn’t treat his injury (shoulder injury playing football in his stateside unit) because it wasn’t combat related. Please.<\/p>\n
OK, for some reason I’m listening to some guy who committed suicide playing guitar so I’m going to drift off here.<\/p>\n
The second guy from the end in the picture above just said Congress needs to get control of the Veterans health sytem – just spit all over poor TSO. Yeah, the answer is Congressional involvement – they do so well at everything else. Ask the troops if they want Congress involved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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