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Change ‘VA’ with ‘ObamaCare’ If You Want To See Your Future

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Meanwhile…outside the VA

The VA is the template of government run medicine.  Vets have been mistreated, untreated, sat on waiting lists, and have died.  The government bureaucrats have hidden the incompetence and malfeasance and continue to receive rewards.  This is how big government at a distance works.

Change ‘VA’ with ‘ObamaCare’ if you want to see your families future.

“The problems at the VA are worse than anyone imagined,” Coburn said.

“Over the past decade, more than 1,000 veterans may have died as a result of VA malfeasance,” the senator added. “Poor management is costing the department billions of dollars more and compromising veterans’ access to medical care.”

The report also alleges that the VA routinely performs unnecessary preventative care, cannot process claims in a timely fashion, employs health care providers who have lost their medical licenses, and – as has been widely reported – maintains secret waiting lists in order to create the impression that the department is meeting performance goals set in Washington.

The report further alleges that some VA staff have been implicated in criminal activities, including drug dealing, sexual abuse, attempted kidnapping, theft, and conspiracy. “Earlier this year, one former staffer at the Tampa, Florida, VA was sentenced to six years in federal prison for trading veterans’ personal information for crack cocaine,” CNN reported on Tuesday.

In spite of these failures, VA senior managers are still receiving bonuses.

We need to do right by our vets, but there is a bigger problem.   The same people who put a mindless faith in government created the problem that made the VA scandal even possible.  These are the people who will insist on adding more government to solve the problem.

The only problem that will solve is the one they can.  The problem that lead to someone finding out that there were fake waiting lists, or that vets were dying while under VA care, and managers were getting bonuses for it.

They won’t stop the bonuses or punish the managers.  They will add more bureaucrats, or lose more emails, or crash more hard drives, or re-assign this name or that, or shuffle responsibility, or blame predecessors all through a growing warren of overpaid, ‘t’ crossers, and ‘i’ dotters, whose job is to hide the truth from the taxpayers who finance their Potemkin  health care system.

This is the future of ObamaCare.  A single payer, government run bureaucracy.  This is the healthcare system Democrats want for you, your spouse your friends, and your children.

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