LOL, gov’t healthcare: One-third of vets on V.A. pending medical care list are already dead

If one wants to know what government-run, single-payer healthcare looks like, one needs to look no further than the VA.
From the Hill:

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Quote :: An internal Veterans Affairs Department report states that about one-third of the veterans waiting to receive medical care from the agency have already died.
A review of veteran death records provided to the Huffington Post found that, as of April, 847,822 veterans were awaiting healthcare and that of those, 238,647 were already deceased.
The report was handed over by Scott Davis, a program specialist at the VA’s Health Eligibility Center in Atlanta
He also sent copies to the House and Senate VA panels and to the White House.
A VA spokeswoman told Huffington Post that the department can’t subtract dead applicants from the list and that some may never have completed an application but remain on the back log.
Spokeswoman Walinda West also said that more than 80 percent veterans who come to the department “have either Medicare, Medicaid, Tricare or some other private insurance.”
“Consequently, some in pending status may have decided to use other options instead of completing their eligibility application.”
Davis dismissed that argument.
“VA wants you to believe, by virtue of people being able to get health care elsewhere, it’s not a big deal. ButVA is turning away tens of thousands of veterans eligible for health care,” he said. “VA is making it cumbersome, and then saying, ‘See? They didn’t want it anyway.’”

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Those of you who support a government takeover of healthcare (i.e. “free” healthcare), don’t say we didn’t warn you. The VA is a perfect microcosm of what a single-payer system would look like.

LOL, gov’t healthcare: One-third of vets on V.A. pending medical care list are already dead

LOL, gov’t healthcare: One-third of vets on V.A. pending medical care list are already dead

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