So I was reading a news article online and came up with this interesting topic: POLITICS-US: McCain's Plan to Privatise Veterans' Health Care
Analysis by Aaron Glantz
So the article goes on to tell us that if McCain is to be elected president he is to give vouchers to non-combat veterans to receive treatment at for-profit, private hospitals. So in other words if you are a veteran with routine check ups, you can take them where ever you want and not just a VA hospital. This would give the opportunity to reduce wait times to see government doctors. But the downfall is that these government doctors are universally viewed as the best in the world. This quote taken from the article shows who is against it: "The Veterans of Foreign Wars' national legislative director has said the VA card would "undermine the entire system"." They also talk about how McCain has voted against full funding of the VA health care as a Senator in 2004 and 2005. So this raises the concern on whether a former naval officer, prisoner of war, and vietnam veterans is for or against VA health care. McCains version of combat wounded can totally be different from our definition. And this simple phase can kick many veterans out of the receiving end of the pool. So many questions need to be answers....so much research...so little time....
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Wow this is crazy!!!! In my opinion i feel that McCain dances around answering questions, he is afraid he is going to lose votes for not saying what the people want. The amazing thing about this particular article is i feel that McCain's strongest supporters or armed forces personal(current and retired) and this is taking a personal stab at a lot of these, there for i think this would be a huge mistake for him
Wow, this is crazy. So if this is what McCain wants, what is Obama proposing. Is health care the ultimate thing that these veterans need?!
I think it's funny that a former POW and veteran does not back full funding for veterans healthcare. Maybe it's because he has his insanely rich wife's money to fall back on.
ha i find this funny that they are unsure of a 5 year long POW is for or against VFW healthcare haha.
and i find it very... insightful. and wonder, would this have come up if he wasn't running for president? though question that i dont think would be asked.\
thanks for sharing jon.
very insightful
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