Health care for vets
Much has been said about the growing controversy surrounding the Veterans Administration Medical system of late. Whether it is in DC or here in Minnesota, our veterans are not getting the care that they deserve. The Logical Husband is former US Army. He has been out for 17 years now. This is nothing new.
After the Logical Husband left the military, he went to work in telecommunications. As the result of a couple of job transfers, he (and I) ended up working at the VAMC in Madison Wisconsin. The VAMC Madison was under scrutiny the year we went there because several veterans had died from heat stroke in the 8th floor ICU that previous summer. We saw a lot of good and bad things at the VA when we worked there. To the point where the Logical Husband told me that if he ever got injured on the job or had a heart attack, he wanted me to grab him by the ankle and drag him over to the adjacent University Medical Center!
With that in mind, I think I hit upon a solution to the problem. What the US Government needs to do is they need to put more money into the VA system. Oh I can hear you know..."OK Miss Conservative Know-it-all Hypocrit - where are you gonna get the money?" Well, if you listen to the Democrats there is only a limited, never changing pool of money that we can use. So my solution is to take the medical dollars that the being spent every year to provide free health care to illegal immigrants and give it to the veterans that have sacrificed their health for the country! Just think what an additional couple of hundred million dollars in the VA system could get these wounded heros.
I have nothing against these illegal immigrants, but these veterans deserve to have the best of health care, given what they have been through. If the illegals need health care, well then they can buy it like the rest of us.
However, I know our friends on the left will be quick to reject that idea...just as they are quick to lay the blame for a 50 year old problem at the foot of President Bush.
After the Logical Husband left the military, he went to work in telecommunications. As the result of a couple of job transfers, he (and I) ended up working at the VAMC in Madison Wisconsin. The VAMC Madison was under scrutiny the year we went there because several veterans had died from heat stroke in the 8th floor ICU that previous summer. We saw a lot of good and bad things at the VA when we worked there. To the point where the Logical Husband told me that if he ever got injured on the job or had a heart attack, he wanted me to grab him by the ankle and drag him over to the adjacent University Medical Center!
With that in mind, I think I hit upon a solution to the problem. What the US Government needs to do is they need to put more money into the VA system. Oh I can hear you know..."OK Miss Conservative Know-it-all Hypocrit - where are you gonna get the money?" Well, if you listen to the Democrats there is only a limited, never changing pool of money that we can use. So my solution is to take the medical dollars that the being spent every year to provide free health care to illegal immigrants and give it to the veterans that have sacrificed their health for the country! Just think what an additional couple of hundred million dollars in the VA system could get these wounded heros.
I have nothing against these illegal immigrants, but these veterans deserve to have the best of health care, given what they have been through. If the illegals need health care, well then they can buy it like the rest of us.
However, I know our friends on the left will be quick to reject that idea...just as they are quick to lay the blame for a 50 year old problem at the foot of President Bush.
Labels: Bush Derangement Syndrome, Troops
posted by The Lady Logician at
7:33 PM
7 Comments:
I've heard a lot about this story, but it's really fascinating to learn how long this kind of stuff has been going on - even here in Minnesota.
I'm not really sure who's fault it is - I haven't read up that much on the story - but whoever it is should be held responsible for the terrible care our wounded soldiers are left in. They gave not just their time and their energy, but some physical piece of themselves to defending this country, and every person in it owes them a debt of gratitude, ESPECIALLY our leaders.
And by the way, I'm back to blogging after a long hiatus, because I've been busy. Check my blog, I've updated it quite a bit.
-Randomguy
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Anonymous, at 9:31 PM
Hurreh, hurreh, step right up, folks! I got your nationalized health care right here, yessiree! You'll be amazed, astounded, you've never seen anything like it! Just get in line here, and all it's gonna cost ya is one thin dime, one-tenth of a dollar! Whatsa matter, buddy? It ain't like an arm and a leg, now, is it? Oh, yeah, I guess maybe it is. Go away, boy, ya bother me.
J. Ewing
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Anonymous, at 4:27 PM
Randomguy - Glad to have you back. I did swing by yesterday and have you on the daily read list.
JE - regarding nationalized health care - that was my first thought...this is what awaits ALL of us should we be foolish enough to give the government control of our health care.
LL
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The Lady Logician, at 10:00 AM
I'm glad to see the uproar being raced and the connection being noticed 15 years after it was first apparent to me. We happen to have some veterans in our own local BPOU about the time that Hillary care was being debated in and they made the obvious point, from personal experience. It's just maddening to see otherwise good Republicans decrying our treatment of veterans and then turning right around and suggesting that the government should be more deeply involved in health care. The only excuse I can come up with is that somehow we're not sending our best and brightest off to Washington or St. Paul. :-/
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Anonymous, at 10:35 AM
"I'm glad to see the uproar being raced and the connection being noticed 15 years after it was first apparent to me."
This an issue that seems to come up every 15-20 years. It was a huge issue back in the 1990s when I worked at the VA in Madison, it was in issue in the 1970's when our vets were coming home from Viet Nam, it was an issue during the Korean War etc....
I hope that this time, instead of the usual DC/St Paul platitudes we get actual ACTION on the way our veterans are treated. Both sides have given nothing but lip service to the issue for far too long.
LL
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The Lady Logician, at 11:41 AM
I don't want to just see action to treat our veterans as they deserve. I want to see this turned into a wooden stake through the heart of the idea that government-run health care is some sort of "solution" to the "health care problems" that government CAUSED.
J. Ewing
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Anonymous, at 12:04 AM
J.E. As the wife of a former military member I would just as soon see the government keep it's promises to vets. However, I too hope that this puts a dagger in the heart of government run health care. My family's health is too important to put in the hands of a government bureaucrat.
LL
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The Lady Logician, at 7:31 AM
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