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2007-03-10 Home Front: Politix

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Posted by Steve White 2007-03-10 11:08|| || Front Page|| [5 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 This sounds like a working panel, with serious depth of personal experience to tackle the problem.

Posted by trailing wife 2007-03-10 13:38|| 2007-03-10 13:38|| Front Page Top

#2 TW - I hope you're right, but I don't have very high hopes. I've been involved with the VA since I retired, and it's ALWAYS been frustrating. There are three main problems: not enough money, too many bureaucrats, and decaying "temporary" facilities that have been in existence since World War II. There needs to be a major overhaul, but I doubt this panel, or any other, will do what's really necessary. I'll be writing about this in my own blog a bit later.

Posted by Old Patriot">Old Patriot 2007-03-10 13:47|| http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/]">[http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/] 2007-03-10 13:47|| Front Page Top

#3 Having trained in three different VA hospitals, my solution would be a bit radical:

close them.

Oh, keep a few of the most modern ones as a back-up to the military medical system.

But vets with service-connected disabilities would get the equivalent of a platinum American Express card for the health care they need, good at any hospital or doctor's office in the country. They get the care, Uncle Sam gets (and pays) the bill.

Vets with non-service connected disabilities would get medical care with means-testing and eligibility criteria that allow them to get care as good as they get at the VA today.

Shutter the VA hospitals. We didn't promise vets a VA hospital system, we promised them health care. That's what we should deliver.

Posted by Steve White">Steve White 2007-03-10 14:03|| 2007-03-10 14:03|| Front Page Top

#4 SW nails it, however, no government program has been closed since the WPA...and I'm not sure they don't still have an office somewhere. Where did George dig up former 'face of America teammate' Shalala?

Posted by Phineter Thraviger 2007-03-10 16:57|| 2007-03-10 16:57|| Front Page Top

#5 It's not funny any more. Here we have a short discussion on the panel makeup, and Steve White levels a conclusion which anybody with a brain would consider the only resolution. However, Bush and the politbureau will play politics and the ever popular funding shell game over this till he hands the red phone over to Rudy.
Hey Bushy, instead of picking a panel, pick your nose. I can't wait till this jerk is history.

Posted by wxjames 2007-03-10 22:03|| 2007-03-10 22:03|| Front Page Top

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