“I have found that mandate from him, to get this organization fixed and the support and freedom to go out and challenge old assumptions, as exactly what the VA needs right now,” Shulkin said.
Promise made, promise being kept.
“I have found that mandate from him, to get this organization fixed and the support and freedom to go out and challenge old assumptions, as exactly what the VA needs right now,” Shulkin said.
Promise made, promise being kept.
Just read it. Not a single iota of evidence of any promises being kept or anything really improved at all, just a subordinate kissing up to his mercurial boss by appealing to his ego.
Aging Veterans don’t have time to wait for adequate healthcare … literally. Perhaps that was the Obama strategery … just wait them out. Or send them to Obamakkare-like Death Panels … er, “Medical Evaluation Boards”.
Thank you President Trump ! MAGA !!!
PS … and NO MORE Veteran “transgender” surgeries. Stop that WASTE of taxpayer dollars.
Really? Been hearing the same thing since Jimmy Carter’s time.
Hmmm … better a “mercurial” President Trump … than a quixotic Barrack Obama.
The VA is a glimpse into the monstrosity of what a national single payer US health care system would look like. As it is, the three single payers in the US, the VA, Medicare, and Medicaid combined, cost about as much per (whole US) capita as Canada’s universal single payer and necessarily rationed and mediocre to lousy system. Add in the roughly 50 to 60% of Americans not covered by those systems with a Hillary, Bernie or Warren on top and by comparison, the NHS leviathan bureaucracy would look like a cottage industry.
When it comes to socialism, American exceptionalism may still exist, they’re just as lousy at socialism as everyone else, perhaps worse.
Obama poisoned the well of what was left of the private insurance system (already state-mandated up the ying-yang) by corrupting insurance pools (forcing coverage of pre-existing conditions). The Republicans don’t appear to have the cojones to change that.