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Originally posted by Replaced_Texan
Again, I cite the December 2004 issue of the Annals of Internal Medicine regarding quality at the VA hospitals.
Signed,
Replaced Cassandra Texan
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Hmmm.... must have missed that the first time around. Can it be read during a single dump? That's kind of my standard for magazines.
Seriously -- I know a little about how good VA hospitals are. Hell, my father was a doctor at a VA hospital for innumerable years. But he was also a doctor for people who had their care paid for in other ways, many of whom failed to use that benefit intelligently -- instead, they would rush in for 'emergencies' that were really chronic conditions grown much worse for neglect. (As a kid I would take messages like "I'm calling because I've been coughing blood for four days." Um, maybe you should have called three days ago?)
Any large program is subject to abuse, misuse, and sloppy management. That is at least as true of privately funded programs as of publicly funded ones (cue the Rs to start screaming in hysteria about how I'm a commie. After all, Enron was a government company, as was Columbia HCA, and after all it was really Clinton's fault. Or FDR's.) I was pointing out one issue -- more specifically, I was taking what Spanky identified as an issue and suggesting that the real issue was the converse.
