Is Military Hospital Walter Reed A Great Example Of What Happens When Government Runs The Healthcare System?

Question

With The Recent Insight Into Military Hospital Walter Reed Are You Liberals Ready To Accept That A Universal Healthcare System Run By The Government Will Yield Similiar Results?

I remember in the 90's when Clinton was chopping the military budget that helped keep up the facilities such as military bases and hospital, it took Bush coming into office to get more money for the dying military facility infrastructure. I know Clinton contracted with Halliburton to provide services relating to Bosnia, I wonder if he was the one who outsourced the Walter Reed management to their subsidiary.

Answer 1

Understand your concern, haven't been to Walter Reed Hospital. There are many of my friends that didn't go to medical school because of their fear of socialization of medicine.

Answer 2

You are so full of bullsh*t and lies it is unbelievable. In 2003 Bush and the Republicans wanted to cut the VA monies even more. It was the Democrats in congress with a few progressive Republicans that stopped Bush/Cheny from devastating the Veterans Administration budget. Where do you get your informations from? My comes directly from the VA. I am involved with the VA, being a vet and I wonder what your military record is or are you one of those chicken-hawk Republicans. It was during Bush"s administration that the closing of Walter Reed was announced. You think because you continiously repeat lies that they become true. Typical Republican. Bush and the conservative Republicans have been in charge for 6 years and have done nothing for the veterans of this country. Why don't you start telling the truth. Just about every question you ask involves lying.

Answer 3

Privatization of Services at Walter Reed Questioned
The fallout continues from the scandal over the conditions at the Walter Reed Army Medical Center. On Friday Defense Secretary Robert Gates ousted Army Secretary Francis Harvey from his post as the top civilian in the Army. Democratic lawmakers are now vowing to investigate the connections between the problems at the hospital and the privatization of services. In September, an Army official wrote a memo that Walter Reed was facing an exodus of highly skilled and experienced personnel because of the Army's decision to privatize support services. A company named IAP Worldwide Services has received a five-year $120 million contract to provide services to Walter Reed. The company is headed by a former senior official from Halliburton.

Answer 4

Friend - It was not the "Government" that was running things into the ground at Walter Reed Hospital - It was the Bush Military!

I trust that the "Liberals" you evidently hate will not have the "Bush Military" running the Universal Healthcare system when it gets here!

Answer 5

This is a great point indeed! Being in the military I would also like to bring up how terrible the treatment is for us. Yes, ever single one of us gets treated, but we get treated as a number and not a person and we are pushed through as fast as possible so the next number can be examined. I do not blame the great medics that treat us at all, they are just stretched thin and there is no other method to handle it. Especially when you have the weaklings taking up valuable medical time when they go in with the sniffles. That is exactly how it is going to be if the nation takes over a universal health care system Everybody with a sniffle or urge for breast implants are going to visit the Dr. and waste my money.

Answer 6

There are no efficient government bureaucracies. Once they become so large they become perfect breeding grounds for mediocrity.

The government can't even collect taxes, one of it's prime charges in the constitution, turning over the healthcare system to them is assuring that the conditions at Walter Reed will become common place for hospitals every where.

Answer 7

Look at the pathetic spectacle that is Canadian and Brittish health care systems. Major operations are a joke there.....the only thing they are good for is preventitivie medicine and dealing with the common cold.

Government always fails, unless it is about blowing stuff up, or burning Americans alive in WACO, sending a Cuban child to the prision that is Cuba, shooting a pregnant woman dead, and other such crap.

Answer 8

Most of the problems were because of outsourcing, when a company is more interested in bottom dollar than people this is what we end up with, do some research.
Yes it universal health care works as in Canada, the US should be ashamed of its better care for the rich policy.

Answer 9

bravo to you for acknowledging that the crisis at walter reed is a republican created one. i was always taught--the republicans rule for the aristocracy; the democrats rule for the poor, working-class citizen. here's evidence; my father WAS right.

atp

Answer 10

That is why I can not understand why everybody is crying for a health care system like Canada's. They say that Canadians die before they can get the hospital care they need or the richer ones simply come to America for major health care.