Posted on Aug 12, 2016
Revamping the VA - should retirees or injured veterans be awarded full medical coverage and their choice of hospital?
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As a country, shouldn't we award full medical coverage for retirees or injured veterans and allow them to use any medical facility they want? If you sacrifice your mental or physical health for your country, your country should take care of you. If we can afford to spend outrageously on over priced products, we should be able, as a country, to take care of our bravest. Thoughts?
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I believe wholeheartedly that we should provide life-long medical/dental/spiritual support for our veterans. This approach would certainly address the access to care issue (e.g., reducing/eliminating waiting times and travel distance for appointments). I would be concerned, however, that without some oversight, that some veterans would still not get the care they need and, worse, there would be no tracking/accounting for them. This oversight component would be extremely hard (impossible?) to implement across multiple, independent, civilian/private health care providers/organizations.
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Healthcare choice and delivery is such a complex problem, it's hard to boil it down to a thread on a discussion board. This could be a upper level college or graduate level course.
1. what ailments should the government cover?
2. what if the vet received insurance from their job?
3. why shouldn't this extend to immediate family especially if a service related injury prevents the vet from providing for his family's needs?
4. what form of payment will the government use for reimbursement?
5. what to do about non-compliance with healthcare?
.... no, the government shouldn't provide a blanket health care cost for vets at their hospital of choice. This is sliding down the slope for a single payer system.
1. what ailments should the government cover?
2. what if the vet received insurance from their job?
3. why shouldn't this extend to immediate family especially if a service related injury prevents the vet from providing for his family's needs?
4. what form of payment will the government use for reimbursement?
5. what to do about non-compliance with healthcare?
.... no, the government shouldn't provide a blanket health care cost for vets at their hospital of choice. This is sliding down the slope for a single payer system.
SSG William Bowen
Some good points in there. I like #5. Many VA healthcare providers (and civilians too) get frustrated with their patients. You have had diabetes for 5 years, already had a foot amputated, been provided with diabetes education and counseling, but continue to gain weight, eat the same crap, sit on the couch; lab work is worse every time it's checked and your meds and possibly insulin are having to be increased. You have taken no personal responsibility, so you just expect tax dollars to continue to pay for your non-compliance, hospitalizations, and surgeries? There is a finite number of resources.
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Other countries do why should not what is suppose to be the greatest nation on the planet do the same?
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