......and I hesitate bring up this aspect of government run healthcare. Because it is a sore spot for many and a personal issue for some right here on GBO.
Nevertheless, you wanna SEE government run healthcare in action right here in the good old USA? You can, and you can read about it with a simple web search.....check out the Department of Veterans Affairs!!!!!!! Right there is a shining example of our future, and it is not the brightest!
Now, before I go any further, understand very clearly, the VA has performed some miracles......no question about it! They have made incredible things possible for some of our wounded warriors! Thing that we could not have imagined just a few years back! They are experimenting with things that sound almost like "bionic" limbs! And have given abilities back to amputees that are almost unbelievable!
However..........................the failures are too numerous to count!!!!!!! Go....do a search right now, find out how our returning vets are running into multiple year long waits just have their benefits approved. Warriors with missing limbs on welfare while they wait. Others waiting in lines for hours on end at VA treatment centers. And THIS coming from the
second largest bureaucracy in America. That's right! The VA has the
second largest budget in our government.
They treat less than 10% of our citizenry....and they can't get the job done!I can go on and on about this, but what's the point? The point is....that's our future, not just the fate of our wounded warriors.....ALL OF US UNDER GOVERNMENT RUN HEALTHCARE ARE GOING TO BE FACED WITH THIS STUFF! And it
will get worse!
My apologies to our vets and to some of the VA employees who make good things happen sometimes. If you had a good experience with the VA, GREAT!!! But it is not that way for many,or even for most, and that's the way it's going to be for all soon.
Government run healthcare....Welcome to our veterans nightmare!
http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/frustrated-veterans-plead-help-wait-carry-105641059.html