hurleyjd
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http://www.forbes.com/sites/theapotheca ... r=yahootix
I have posted a few excerpts from the article. Go to the website to read all.
While we're liberating veterans from VA hospitals, let's also let VA hospitals compete for civilian patients. All over the country, hospital monopolies are gobbling up their neighbors and driving up the price of health care. VA hospitals could help bring down costs by competing with the private monopolies, and with for-profit hospital chains like Tenet and HCA.
Until now. On Wednesday, Sen. John McCain (R., Ariz.) told Roll Call that he was working with Sens. Tom Coburn (R., Okla.) and Richard Burr (R., N.C.) on a new reform plan. "Let's let our veterans choose the health care that they need and want the most and not have to be bound to just going to the VA…Why wouldn't a veteran who has served his country honorably…not be able to go to the health care provider of his or her choice?"
This is a promising development. Put simply, veterans will continue to suffer until they have the option to buy private coverage and seek private care. The premium support approach will allow the government to provide maximum subsidies to those who have suffered serious injuries in combat, and provide conventional subsidies to non-combat veterans who deserve traditional health coverage.
Republicans talk nonstop about how the Affordable Care Act is "socialized medicine." But the real instance of medical socialism has been right in front of them all along, at the Veterans Health Administration. If the GOP can't find the courage to enact fundamental reforms of the VA, it has no right to complain about Obamacare.
I have posted a few excerpts from the article. Go to the website to read all.
While we're liberating veterans from VA hospitals, let's also let VA hospitals compete for civilian patients. All over the country, hospital monopolies are gobbling up their neighbors and driving up the price of health care. VA hospitals could help bring down costs by competing with the private monopolies, and with for-profit hospital chains like Tenet and HCA.
Until now. On Wednesday, Sen. John McCain (R., Ariz.) told Roll Call that he was working with Sens. Tom Coburn (R., Okla.) and Richard Burr (R., N.C.) on a new reform plan. "Let's let our veterans choose the health care that they need and want the most and not have to be bound to just going to the VA…Why wouldn't a veteran who has served his country honorably…not be able to go to the health care provider of his or her choice?"
This is a promising development. Put simply, veterans will continue to suffer until they have the option to buy private coverage and seek private care. The premium support approach will allow the government to provide maximum subsidies to those who have suffered serious injuries in combat, and provide conventional subsidies to non-combat veterans who deserve traditional health coverage.
Republicans talk nonstop about how the Affordable Care Act is "socialized medicine." But the real instance of medical socialism has been right in front of them all along, at the Veterans Health Administration. If the GOP can't find the courage to enact fundamental reforms of the VA, it has no right to complain about Obamacare.
