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H the K wrote:
Gene wrote:
On Tue, 01 Sep 2009 09:27:18 -0400, NotNow penned the following well
considered thoughts to the readers of rec.boats:

|Gene wrote:
| On Mon, 31 Aug 2009 14:46:05 -0400, NotNow wrote:
| |
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/articl...MNFT19FC7K.DTL

| | If we are going to have socialized medicine, why reinvent the
wheel?
| Let's just put everybody under the VA administration for health care
| and, from what most of you folks say, everybody should be happy....
| | Why wouldn't that work?
|
|I'm guessing it would be acceptable to many here if it weren't for
the |fact that there's a liberal in office.

I find the silence deafening!

Plus, this thread has gone on for so long that I doubt any facts are
now to be found.....

For many years, the VA's health services have been seriously
underfunded. The previous occupant of the White House went to war
without consider the impact the returning wounded would have on the
military's medical delivery systems for active and separated service
personnel.

I see no reason for a federal medical service for "civilians." What is
needed is a system that properly oversights control and operation of
private health insurance companies. I think the Federal Employee Health
Benefit Act provides the model. A "public" insurer owned by the
taxpayers could easily be added to that sort of mix.

At some point you have to ask yourself exactly what the "for profit"
health insurance industry does to improve health care or delivery of
same, aside from a 30% profit to the corporation and its owners.

Damn. I agree with this post.