TEA Party: 'Privatize The VA!'??

Privatization to for profit is just plain War Profiteering!!
Need demanded growth, for Wall Street investors, growing comp for execs, growing writeoff corporate perks, Have Wars, send others!!

And one wonders why these so called 'tea party' members, leaders beck {anyone hear them demand at his rally? me neither, as he used a small vet org for cost of rally writeoff} and palin types, Don't Demand 'Sacrifice', their own, for the Veterans of the wars of choice they rabidly support, No One Doesn't! One Knows Why Already, reason the VA has been kept in a constant catchup mode as to technology advancements and more, which double, triple and more costs, as many veterans fight for care and more promised and have for decades!

Tea Party Candidate Ken Buck Called For Privatizing Veterans’ Health Care

21 September 2010 - Colorado Senate candidate Ken Buck (R) has made a name for himself kowtowing the Tea Party line. First, he said liberal Americans were this country’s “greatest threat.” Later, Buck tacked hard-right on abortion, coming out against exceptions even in cases of rape or incest.

Buck has also doubled-down on his Tea Party credentials by calling for Veterans Administration hospitals to be privatized. At a Pueblo Tea Party meeting this summer, Buck told attendees that the VA hospital system would “be better run” if it were privatized:

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In fact, the VA hospital system is one of the most heralded parts of the American health care system. A 2005 Washington Monthly article called it “the highest quality care in the country.” A head-to-head comparison in 2003 between Medicare patients who were free to choose their own private doctors and veterans who were covered by the Veterans Health Administration, the New England Journal of Medicine found the latter “significantly better” on all 11 measures of quality. In addition, a 2006 survey found that veterans are significantly more satisfied with their care than civilians who received private care. {read rest}

Reid out with new ad attacking Angle on veterans’ issues

September 21, 2010 - The ad, following Reid’s central theme, uses Angle’s own words against her. Reid draws from an interview on KNPR in which she discussed privatizing the Veteran’s Administration. She was asked, according to the ad, whether doctor’s visits and prescriptions would be covered.

“No,” she answered. “Not if you’re working toward a privatized system.” {read rest}

The disgruntled still waiting for their trickle down that they were conned into believing was always right around the corner, and still waiting, and still waiting...........!

The reasons the VA isn't the best in the World, but much better then much of the private, as we continue waging wars on innocent others, lays right at the feet of one certain political party but most one political ideology, 'conservatism', that's run amuck as they are also the hawks within the society, sending others!

We Serve the Country and Constitution, that Country Owes, and the Debts of the past are adding to the growing Debts now for the present generation