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“The great tragedy of science is the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.”
Thomas Henry Huxley
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Entertaining, Educating, and Criticizing Our Broken Healthcare System for 22 Years
From #4: Disablement in military service is “Welfare?” I don’t even know where to begin. The writer has obviously not been to a VA hospital, what with dismembered and disfigured WW2, Korea, Vietnam, and more recent war vets. He has never been denied a job because his DD-214 has a medical discharge code, never had his retraining benefits stripped because he is now unemployable. Doc, you wanna live on my “welfare benefit?” I suspect my disability pay is insignificant to that of even the most modestly-paid physician.
Business Week magazine, in a review of hospital care systems, ranked the VA as number one in the nation (over all corporate ones). That is far better than what it used to be, “a veteran’s second chance to give his life for his country.”
A physician working at the VA does not have to carry malpractice insurance (the government is self-insured), does not have to hire or maintain an office staff, does not have to fill in insurance forms, does not have to supply his own office or equipment. While a VA physician does not make as much money as a civilian physician, he can devote all his time to patient care.
You wanna save money on the VA? Quit sending the military into warfare. I would gladly trade my brain-damage caused epilepsy for your headaches with insurance paperwork.
You want to get rid of all the nonsense of insurance? Why is this nation the only one in the First World that does not consider health care a human right and a necessary service of the government (like police, fire departments and public roads)? Hey we can even save more money by getting rid of all those police that are mooching off the system, and you want a fire put out? How about you pay for it. (We have a volunteer fire department here but I cannot volunteer.)
Dr Doug, though I often find your articles humorous, or enlightening, I am disappointed you gave this self-appointed guardian of our fiscal health a platform for his screed. I hold you in better regard than that.
Aviation Electronics Technician 1st Class, United States Navy, Retired-disabled (seventeen years service)
Not even sure of your reference. My entry was on disability abuse in the military which takes away from the real veterans. As far as a voice, I give ALMOST everyone a chance to voice their opinion here.