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Larry Kudlow: Blame Socialism, Not Shinseki.
[National Review} The VA problem is not Shinseki, it's socialism. The Veterans Affairs health-care system is completely government run. It is a pure single-payer program. National Review editor Rich Lowry calls it "an island of socialism in American health care." He is right. I've been arguing this all week.So perhaps Democrats and Republicans will get together to sack VA secretary Eric Shinseki. But that won't change a thing. In fact, it's a distraction. Might not change anything, but as they say in the army "...he has lost our confidence in his ability to lead." The long waits for treatment, with excessive delays resulting in as many as 40 deaths, are a tragically predictable outcome. This is the result of bureaucratic rationing, price controls, inefficiencies, and the inevitable cover-ups. It was the late James Buchanan, the Nobel Prize-winning economist, who taught us all about bureaucratic incentives in his seminal work on public choice. So if Congress thinks it can find somebody who can tame the VA bureaucracy, it should go right ahead. But the statist VA health-care system, which in so many ways mirrors the government-run health-care problems in Britain, Europe, and Canada, must be completely changed. Relief of Shinseki aside, Kudlow knocks it out of the park. Posted by: Besoeker 2014-05-26 |
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