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Monday, 05 March 2007
"Walter Reed Highlights Need for Universal Healthcare"

Newsflash: Government-run health care sucks 
Michelle Malkin

The Washington Post is back today with another story about the pitfalls of the military health care system. Like I said when the WaPo series was launched, these failures are damnable--and nothing new. David Bernstein at The Volokh Conspiracy adds:

If private companies had mismanaged outpatient care for veterans the way the V.A. system has, there would be strong calls from all the usual quarters for a government takeover, and proclamations of how we can't trust "greedy" for-profit companies to take care of veterans. Funny how this thought process doesn't seem to work in reverse, except among "free market ideologues," who have been criticizing the V.A. for years.

Will the Bush-bashers join with free-market critics to effect real change and help the troops who need and deserve better care?

We'll see.

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There are hearings going on this morning in Congress, USAToday blogs: ...

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Walter Reed Highlights Need for Universal Healthcare
Scott Ott

(2007-03-05) — Democrat presidential contender Sen. Hillary Clinton today decried the allegedly poor conditions, stifling bureaucracy and negligent care at Walter Reed Army Medical Center and throughout the VA healthcare system, but added, “Just think how bad it would be if it weren’t a government run system.” ...

Posted by Bill Faith on March 5, 2007 at 12:32 PM in Caring about our troops | Permalink

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Posted by: bc

Is the fact that Walter Reed was privatized irrelevant?

Posted by: bc | Mar 5, 2007 11:50:43 PM


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