Comments on: The VA hospital scandal spreads

By: Beverly

Beverly — Tue, 20 May 2014 20:05:11 +0000

But, Comrade Zero is outraged, I tell you: Outraged! that this is going on! so Outraged that he’s arranged to cashier a guy whose retirement was already announced months ago!

And he didn’t know the first thing about it, until he heard it on the news, like you and me!

… Rush was talking about this yesterday: he was groping for the phrase and said we owe our veterans the responsibility to take care of them, or something like that.

But what he meant was the antique notion of the Debt of Honor. The nation’s citizens owe our veterans a debt of honor, that we’ll keep faith with them as they’ve fought for us.

By: Ymarsakar

Ymarsakar — Tue, 20 May 2014 17:38:32 +0000

A lot of the Democrats from the military ranks were Democrats because they were promised funding and power over veteran affairs, including veteran benefits and healthcare. A lot of them followed in Shinseki’s shoes. But it looks like armchair generals that talk a lot, can’t really get much done. Well, making bodybags stack to the moon, maybe, but not much else.

By: DonS

DonS — Tue, 20 May 2014 14:07:59 +0000

Jim Sullivan Says:

. . . But on Fox News today, I saw what I thought was a preliminary attempt to test a Blame Bush effort.

It went something like, “There were statements from those in the White House that they were notified as earlier as the 2008 transition that problems like this were happening…”

That could also show Obama knew about it all along.

I do recall that there was a Walter Reed scandal in the Bush era that the media attempted to use against Bush.

By: Ymarsakar

Ymarsakar — Tue, 20 May 2014 13:55:25 +0000

1 dollar per citizen. 10 dollars bumps it up to a few billion.

This number was being managed and cut down via emergency room access before, so the slice of the pie was much smaller than the US’s total pop or adult pop.

By: RickZ

RickZ — Tue, 20 May 2014 10:01:45 +0000

holmes Says:

It would be cheaper and more effective to buy every veteran a middle of the road ACA plan.

Considering how much money the Federal and state governments have flushed down the toilet on 404Care (estimated at between $4 and 5 billion, with a ‘b’), it would have been cheaper by magnitudes for the Government to simply give every citizen $1 million to buy their own insurance (approximately $340 million, with an ‘m’).

By: holmes

holmes — Tue, 20 May 2014 04:50:23 +0000

It would be cheaper and more effective to buy every veteran a middle of the road ACA plan.

By: Ymarsakar

Ymarsakar — Tue, 20 May 2014 04:25:21 +0000

There’s more information on this matter from a different perspective.

http://www.blackfive.net/main/2014/05/a-three-step-plan-to-begin-eating-the-va-elephant.html

In the comments.

By: Ymarsakar

Ymarsakar — Tue, 20 May 2014 04:21:38 +0000

Also, what happened to those freaks of nature, the Righteous Hammers of Justice or whatever the hell they call themselves in their cult, that were telling us that canada, cuba, and britain and the US military all had great state healthcare?

By: Ymarsakar

Ymarsakar — Tue, 20 May 2014 04:20:35 +0000

What happened to all those Democrat operatives that told us Bush was wasting lives because competent generals, like SHinseki, told us we needed more troops (for the meatgrinder) in Iraq?

By: Michael

Michael — Tue, 20 May 2014 03:49:31 +0000

I joined the Marines when I was 17, so I’ve had a bird’s-eye view into gov’t health care for a long time, and was appalled to discover that with such empirical experiences such as the VA, the Indian reservations …Canada, England, of course, Michael Moore’s favorite, Cuba, the post office, the DMV etc., etc.,…people would STILL consider “government health care”??!! Barnum had it right, there’s a sucker born every minute. And that sucker is a true parasite.
As a beneficiary, I do think it is important to extend appreciation to the dedicated doctors and nurses, while acknowledging the incompetence and corruption of the bureaucrats.