Healthcare training wheels, is a good way to describe what our long-standing veterans’ healthcare system should be all about.
Why “training wheels?” Because it’s a microcosm of what a national healthcare system for our nation might look like if properly respected and funded. The system was first set up to care for our wounded returning veterans. It has become a creature that has undergone many periods of neglect. All too many of our returning vets have had this experience themselves. They answered their nation’s call and now the nation needs to step up as much as they did.
Efforts to “privatize” the VA system is going in exactly the opposite direction that needs to be taken. Rather it should be expanded and very possibly applied to the rest of the nation, instead of having it become part of the present “nonsystem” of catch as you can for those who can.
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