No there mitt, the 'Maybe' is the Country should be Demanding They Sacrifice, after all they cheer on Wars of Choice as they send others, even non citizens who serve, and Fully Fund, like we Over Fund the private sector Defense Industry no questions asked, the VA which hasn't been since Korea and especially after us returning during the years of or all returned from Vietnam!! Just compare the VA, underfunded, to the private sector care. Especially the lack of Sacrifice of the wealthy, who reap huge from war, either directly, today through private no bid contracts, or indirectly, from the investing in the Wall Street roulette wheel and pocketing the profits from those investments instead of back into the economic growth, in our new capitalism!
11/11/11 - Mitt Romney floated an eyebrow-raising suggestion on Veterans Day: privatize veterans' health care.
Speaking with a dozen vets in an occasionally emotional roundtable discussion in South Carolina Friday, the GOP presidential contender sympathized with the service members' difficulties obtaining treatment from the Department of Veterans Affairs, which one vet described as "adversarial."
Romney, who has already proposed privatizing Medicare, suggested that maybe giving wounded warriors an outside option would force VA health bureaucrats to be a little more responsive.
"When you work in the private sector and you have a competitor, you know if I don't treat this customer right, they're going to leave me and go somewhere else, so I'd better treat them right," Romney said. "Whereas if you're the government, they know there's nowhere else you guys can go. You're stuck.
Sometimes you wonder if there would be some way to introduce some private-sector competition, somebody else that could come in and say, you know, that each soldier gets X thousand dollars attributed to them, and then they can choose whether they want to go in the government system or in a private system with the money that follows them," said Romney. "Like what happens with schools in Florida, where people have a voucher that goes with them. Who knows?"
Though Romney was equivocal about the idea, the Democrat-aligned Protect Your Care was quick to pounce on the suggestion, which could have the effect of diverting cash from the VA. read more>>>
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