Tell it, like it is !!!! I agree 100% with what you said. The government & its employees, have one main interest: taking as much of anyones money they can. They could care less about vets, kids, the elderly, homeless, hungry, etc.... I am a vet, and whole situation, is ridiculous.
I think this is a complicated problem. Ann certainly identified one aspect of it. Your solution would be great, if only to create some competition. I do want to say that I think a lot of military healthcare is first rate. We save a lot of wounded troops who would have died in other wars. We spend a lot of money getting them out of the war zone and flying them on hospital planes up to germany, where they get first class care. I have a relative who is a physician in the Air Force, and I believe the care patients get at his facility is first class. The other side of the coin is that there are plenty of civilian hospitals, rehab facilities and nursing care providers that provide substandard care. Partly it is economics, partly it is management and partly it is the difficulty of attracting staff.
these crossed my desk today... was meaning to post them Walter Reed: http://www.wusa9.com/news/news_article.aspx?storyid=56746 Halliburton's destination: http://www.theworld.ae/ something's definitely not right with this admin