Veterans Affairs Wait Times Scandal

[Bandit3 the Worker]

This sounds like another scandal that the right-wing media is just itching to blame Obama for, even though he had nothing to do with it.

Remember all the problems with the VA hospitals under Bush? Remember how Bush practically dismantled VA medical care?

[Bandit3 the Worker]

I might also add that Bush and the Republican Congress - back in 2003 when the Iraq War began - slashed VA funding by $13 billion. Even though it was clear that VA services would be needed more because of the war.

[Bandit3 the Worker]

If it harms support for single payer, it's only because The Media isn't doing its job. Which it doesn't anyway. Because if it did, we'd have single payer by now.

[Bandit3 the Worker]

How about all the scandals involving private for-profit health care firms? These scandals nearly killed me.

[Bandit3 the Worker]

Before or after the ACA?

Before. And it didn't improve until the ACA was enacted.

[Bandit3 the Worker]

Before or after the ACA?

Before. And it didn't improve until the ACA was enacted.

Then you and I are in agreement -and it is well in our interest to have the ACA evolve into something resembling the Bismarck model so that we could avoid the pitfalls of either extreme. 

I think it's pretty clear that single payer would be the best. Most of the world already has single payer, and they don't have people needlessly dying over lack of medical care.

[Bandit3 the Worker]

The unfortunates with Veterans Affairs and the Indian Health Service beg to differ. 

Then how come other places with single payer aren't having this problem?

[Bandit3 the Worker]

Certainly makes it harder for Democrats to "win" in November, or better said to keep the Senate.

From the polling numbers so far, it doesn't seem so.