Comments on: What will universal healthcare be like? Just look at the VA

By: frecklescassie

frecklescassie — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 03:15:56 +0000

Is it screwed up cause the government can’t? Or cause this admin doesn’t want to? They keep cutting funding. And what did I hear about them privatizing services at Walter Reed?

By: outerloop

outerloop — Thu, 08 Mar 2007 04:58:55 +0000

I tried to fit my response to your post here, but I couldn’t realistically. I responded directly to you here –> http://outer-loop.com/2007/03/07/libertarians-trying-to-defend-employer-provided-healthcare/

By: FraudWasteAbuse

FraudWasteAbuse — Thu, 08 Mar 2007 11:50:57 +0000

Hey, cool! An entire post written to respond to my post! That’s a first.

I briefly looked at your new post and I’ll taker a closer look after I get home from work tonight.

Thanks for the comment.

By: G.I.Joe

G.I.Joe — Wed, 28 May 2008 19:10:02 +0000

Iread your article with interest. I’m still mixed on the universal health care system. However, I would like to give you another side of the VA.

I am a disable veteran ( rated at 100%). I pay for tricare for my wife and children. I can go to the base clinic, but I choose to go to the VA. If I have to make an appointment, yes, it’s usually a few weeks out. But if I am sick and need to see a doctor, I just show up. The problem is that the VA employees have an attitude of ‘it’s just a job’. This attitude needs to be changed. This change is effected by changing the chief administrator at the offending hospitals.

By: va doctor medicine doctor

va doctor medicine doctor — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 03:08:39 +0000

it is just a job when i am being paid at 20% the going rate in the city. we have little clerical support (turn over is high), most things has to be done by the physician instead of his or her nurse or nursing assistant like in the private sector (don’t know where the pharmacy is? best that i walk you to it because no one else can realistically help. want to come back for a lipid recheck in 2 months? better schedule it myself as a physician because often it doesn’t get scheduled otherwise).

things aren’t all bad - we all have free will and many doctors work here for their own reasons (tort protection, better retirement benefits, teaching and research opportunities). but pay me more for the extra efforts that i put in, or else i am going elsewhere (which after almost 5 years, i am doing).

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By: Katherine

Katherine — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 18:49:32 +0000

If it’s good enough for our ‘men and women in uniform’ it’s good enough for every American to access, stand in line, sit in the waiting room, and receive care side by side.

Anything else is merely false platitudes, classism, racism, and self righteousness.

If they have to wait, we should have to wait for a physician. If they are roomed in a building with walls falling down, paint peeling from the ceiling, lower level equipment and services, so should we.

If the VA is the “standard” of care that Americans believe and fund as “appropriate” for active and retired military who layed their bodies and, by extention, their families, on the line-is what they earned and deserve-then all Americans deserve to show them that we support them in all things. No just empty talk and Fourth of July parades.

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