Will this have any effect on overall support for single-payer health care, especially considering that Veterans Affairs healthcare is essentially single-payer?
Zero, since single payer in America is a far off fantasy that will outlive the VA problem if and when it ever gets considered.
And it will likely remain a fantasy of True Leftists -here is yet
another scandal involving government-run health care:
As tribal health care woes mount, feds get blameBy MATTHEW BROWNBILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — Misdiagnosed illnesses, denied payments and a shortage of trained medical personnel in government-run clinics are wrecking the federal health care system for Native Americans, tribal leaders said Tuesday as they pressed officials to overhaul a system beset with problems.
With the head of the Indian Health Service listening on, representatives of seven Montana and Wyoming reservations delivered a litany of health care woes suffered by their members during a U.S. Senate Indian Affairs Committee field hearing in Billings.
They described an agency compromised by a bloated bureaucracy and unable to fulfill its core duty to provide health care for more than 2 million American Indians and Alaska Natives.
"All too often, tribal members complain of ailments but get sent home from the Indian Health Service with cough medicine or pain killers. Later we learn the situation is much more serious, like cancer," said A.T. "Rusty" Stafne, chairman of the Assiniboine and Sioux Tribes of northeast Montana's Fort Peck Indian Reservation.
