"You can read all the reports you want, and that is certainly one way to start looking at an issue. But at the same time, I wonder if Tim Noah has spent any time, like say one nano-second, in a VA hospital.
Now, I've never sought treatment as such a facility, and never would because the idea of it scares the crap out of me, but I have helped some elderly friends and acquanitances get treated in the two in my area. To say the care is equal to, or indeed superior to, other hospitals and health care is a lie of the most scary type.
Besides working in run-down facilities with obsolete equipment, the places are staffed with new doctors and MD wannabes. Some who are not likely to be able to make it anywhere else, but there they are at the VA. The non-doctor staff is comprised mostly of contract labor - medical personnel that are at the VA today, but will be somewhere else next week, or next month.
And who has ever worked with any government entity and not said out loud in experation "that's the dumbest bunch of #%$^&#$ I've ever had to deal with". Yes that's what you get with this government entity, too.
I suggest Mr. Noah take one of his loved ones there the next time they need major medical attention, and then rewrite his column and see if he agrees with this article."
The Triumph of Socialized Medicine - Right here in the USA. By TimothyNoah
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ROTFLMAO
I had always got a good chuckle when I was a first year resident at the VA fantasizing that Bill Clinton would come in for his much needed blepharoplasty which I would perform in the "state-of-the-art" procedure room in the corner of our clinic.
The dose of reality that such an experience would infuse into the national healthcare debate would not be measurable.
ROTFLMAO
I had always got a good chuckle when I was a first year resident at the VA fantasizing that Bill Clinton would come in for his much needed blepharoplasty which I would perform in the "state-of-the-art" procedure room in the corner of our clinic.
The dose of reality that such an experience would infuse into the national healthcare debate would not be measurable.
ROTFLMAO
I had always got a good chuckle when I was a first year resident at the VA fantasizing that Bill Clinton would come in for his much needed blepharoplasty which I would perform in the "state-of-the-art" procedure room in the corner of our clinic.
The dose of reality that such an experience would infuse into the national healthcare debate would not be measurable.
ROTFLMAO
I had always got a good chuckle when I was a first year resident at the VA fantasizing that Bill Clinton would come in for his much needed blepharoplasty which I would perform in the "state-of-the-art" procedure room in the corner of our clinic.
The dose of reality that such an experience would infuse into the national healthcare debate would not be measurable.
ROTFLMAO
I had always got a good chuckle when I was a first year resident at the VA fantasizing that Bill Clinton would come in for his much needed blepharoplasty which I would perform in the "state-of-the-art" procedure room in the corner of our clinic.
The dose of reality that such an experience would infuse into the national healthcare debate would not be measurable.
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