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Originally Posted by hambirg  Yeah. . .because they did such a GREAT job at Walter Reed.
Health care and insurance industries are already big money.
There is not easy answer to the health care issue. I would love to see some kind of socialized health care, but I'm not all warm and fuzzy about seeing it turned into a federal bureaucracy. |
Again - Walter Reed is an Army Medical Center. The Army runs the place. I think they may contract the work out, which begs more questions. But I don't know much about that. Additionally, WR is set to close in a few years. With all $$ going to the war, of course the wounded troops (who are not of much use any more) are going to get the shaft. We praise our soldiers until they are not of use to us. Then we treat them like an inconvenience. Hopefully, this is changing, but this is historically how the deal goes.
And, the reason for all the propoganda about the "horrors" of a national health insurance is exactly because of huge profit industries of health care, insurance and pharm companies scaring people.
We already socialize 60% of the health care provided in this country.