Ben Shapiro has a piece atTruth Revolt. “As the fallout from the Veterans Administration cooking of the books and the related deaths of over three dozen veterans continues, President Obama took to the podium on Wednesday to explain that problems at the VA are nothing new. … And herein lies the problem for the left: the failures at the VA, including its bureaucratic incompetence, its waiting lists, and its deaths, all debunk the notion that a government-run healthcare system will work. It’s a fresh slap in the face to all those commentators who having been praising the VA as a template for Obamacare. What I’ve compiled here, is all of these leftist commentators praising the VA, so much praise that they held out the VA, as an example of how Obamacare will be wonderful for this country. Paul Krugman, 2011, just three years ago: “Multiple surveys have found the VHA providing better care than most Americans receive, even as the agency has held cost increases well below those facing Medicare and private insurers…the VHA is an integrated system, which provides health care as well as paying for it. So it’s free from the perverse incentives created when doctors and hospitals profit from expensive tests.” Hes ripping to shreds the free market, doctors and hospitals, praising the VA. Its so well run. Its so efficient. Its so economical. Treatments so good, nobodys left wanting anything. Its a great example of how Obamacare will work. And then he added, Yes, this is ‘socialized medicine’… But it works, and suggests what it will take to solve the troubles of US health care more broadly.” Nicholas Kristof, New York Times, 2009. “Take the hospital system run by the Department of Veterans Affairs, the largest integrated health system in the United States. It is fully government run, much more “socialized medicine” than is Canadian health care with its private doctors and hospitals. And the system for veterans is by all accounts one of the best-performing and most cost-effective elements in the American medical establishment.” These guys could not be more wrong! They were just acting as PR agents for Obamacare and somebody told em, Hey, why dont you use the VA,. Then they lied to em about how well the VA is doing, and it all got started, the VA was great. All the while this is going on, Obama and everybody is running around with the need for reform of the VA, cause waiting lists were happening, people were not being treated, patients were dying, all while this stuff was being written. Just last year, Uwe Reinhardt of Princeton wrote in the pages of the New York Times,”Remarkably, Americans of all political stripes have long reserved for our veterans the purest form of socialized medicine, the vast health system operated by the US Department of Veterans Affairs (generally known as the VA health system). If socialized medicine is as bad as so many on this side of the Atlantic claim, why have both political parties ruling this land deemed socialized medicine the best health system for military veterans? Or do they just not care about them?” Do you think these people are embarrassed today? Hell, no. They dont think anybodys gonna hear about this or remember any of this. They just said what needed to be said at the moment to advance whatever part of the Democrat agenda was in trouble. And theyll say tomorrow whatever has to be said, whether its true or not, to advance the Democrat agenda. The RAND Corporation: “If other health care providers followed the VA’s lead, it would be a major step toward improving the quality of care across the US health care system.” This is embarrassing. I mean, nothing could be further from the truth. Washington Post, Ezra Klein, “who wrote in the Washington Post in 2009 that ‘expanding the Veterans Health Administration to non-veterans’ was ‘one of my favorite ideas.’” I think all of this is proof of the theory that Obama didnt want the truth about the VA to come out while theyre trying to sell us on Obamacare. In fact, they got their willing accomplices here in them media spreading these lies about how great the VAs doing, so they cant focus on any problems there because that would undercut the effort of Obamacare, which they were using the VA as a model. The New York Times, Washington Post, little Northeastern liberals gobbling this stuff up and considering it to be gospel, being lied to practically in every paragraph.
Posted on: Sat, 24 May 2014 13:23:05 +0000
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